[jbosstools-dev] new JBoss Central available from nightly builds

[Fred Bricon]

I’ll try adding visual indicators  (like ◦◦●◦ )

> Le 29 avr. 2015 à 05:44, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> a écrit :
> 
> On 29 Apr 2015, at 11:20, Martin Malina wrote:
> 
>> Hi Fred,
>> 
>> Great job! I like the design, it looks clean. And the search is super fast.
>> What I don't quite like so much is the carousel. You can't control it and it can be a little distracting.
>> For other arguments see http://shouldiuseacarousel.com <http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/> :) But maybe it's just me :)
>> And I understand we do want to put the blogs somewhere.
> 
> I have the same concern, but I think this small "ticker" is less of a problem than the usual giant carousel's that shouldiuseacarousel.com goes against.
> 
> At least thats what I feel now - lets see what the feedback is and if we are getting more or less clicks on the entries ;)
> 
> /max
> 
>> 
>> -Martin
>> 
>> 
>>> On 27. 4. 2015, at 6:11, Fred Bricon <fbricon at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> FYI, I’ve merged the current Central/HTML5 rework to jbosstools-central master.
>>> This means you can see the new Central in action after installing the latest nightly build from http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/mars/ <http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/mars/>
>>> 
>>> It’s far from being complete, but you’ll at least get a taste of what’s to come in JBT 4.3/JBDS 9.
>>> 
>>> What works :
>>> - Central is now an html5 page maintained at  https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage>
>>> - the page is served from a swt browser widget (using webkit under the hood).
>>> - about 220 quickstarts are available as of today (some target eap 6.3, other target 6.4)
>>> - search is craaazy fast, as it is local to the webpage (no round trips to dcp server)
>>> - it’s fast to load and scales better in small windows, compared to the existing version.
>>> - proxy wizards are injected to search results
>>> - external links are opened in a browser window
>>> - JBoss Buzz results visible as carousel under the title
>>> - early access label displayed according to EA settings (UI to be reviewed)
>>> - you can build https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage> locally (after installing node and grunt-cli) and test it by starting Eclipse with -Djboss.central.webpage.url=file:///path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/jbosstools-central-webpage-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip <file:///path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/jbosstools-central-webpage-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip> or -Djboss.central.webpage.url=/path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/gruntbuild.
>>> 
>>> What doesn’t work :
>>> - for some reason I just broke the quickstart integration, which used to work, I swear. Will fix it on Monday
>>> - current webpage is served directly from http://central-fredapp.rhcloud.com/ <http://central-fredapp.rhcloud.com/>, I need to get https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage> built from Jenkins and deployed to Nexus. At least that gives us some good flexibility in terms of maintenance.
>>> - search engine uses staging dcpbeta-searchisko.rhcloud.com/ <http://dcpbeta-searchisko.rhcloud.com/> service, instead of dcp.jboss.org <http://dcp.jboss.org/>
>>> - The development workflow isn’t finalized yet. I need to set up and tune grunt watch, so that changes in html/js/sass can be picked up directly from eclipse.
>>> - title still too big, needs to scale down
>>> - offline mode is not supported (both for central and the quickstarts, groovy script not update yet)
>>> - quickstarts not integrated to the existing project examples wizard
>>> - legacy examples are not displays in the results, yet.
>>> - project requirements not inferred yet (from existing metadata?)
>>> - project tags should be added
>>> - maybe find another default icon for quickstarts.
>>> - layout needs to be tuned (needs to scale on 3 cols, instead of 4 and 2 currently)
>>> - needs some tabzilla-like button (see the red hat at top right of http://tools.jboss.org/ <http://tools.jboss.org/>) to display show on startup
>>> - APIs are in still unstable, expect them to break.
>>> -  you might notice some slight font flickering, due to the carousel script. I tried to minimize it but it’s still visible in the search bar’s hint text
>>> - many other small stuff that are missing, that I can’t think of right now.
>>> 
>>> So, give it a try, we’d be happy to hear some feedback, good or bad, ideas to make it better (JIRA is your friend).
>>> 
>>> Fred
>>> 
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