[Hawkular-dev] communty distribution question

[Heiko W.Rupp]

On 28 Apr 2016, at 20:06, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:

> This relates to the "[Hawkular-dev] Future Packaging of Hawkular" 
> thread.  I started this thread to discuss a specific scenario that I 
> don't know how to handle.
>
> In addition to the components listed in that e-mail, there are a few 
> other things in the Hawkular repo that weren't mentioned.  For 
> example, we have pinger and we have the inventory-event bus listener.  
> I point out those two because I think they now exist solely to support 
> the community UI.  URL monitoring and Alert Center do not carry over 
> to MIQ.  With respect to the alert center we have out-of-box trigger 
> definitions that are currently still active and are defined 
> specifically to support the UI Alert center in Hawkular classic.  And 
> so we have a situation where code I would otherwise remove may need to 
> exist to support the UI in the community distribution.   Do we really 
> want to keep a community-edition UI and the server-code that *only* 
> supports what it does?   If we remove it it will severely cripple the 
> UI.  But I fear that the UI will anyway quickly deteriorate unless we 
> make concerted efforts to maintain compatible server code.  Even today 
> I think the UI is starting to falter.  I'm not sure but when I tried 
> to use the master version today to perform a deployment, it just hung.
>
> So in line with Juca's questioning, what sort of effort do we put into 
> the community UI?  A lot, and keep it working as best as we can and 
> ensure we mark server code that is relevant to community UI support?   
> None, and just make the server code be the headless provider it needs 
> to be to support MIQ, or something in the middle (which usually ends 
> up being a waste of time).
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