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

Wed Apr 29 13:51:42 EDT 2015

How about just a single link that will show the full carousel/rss ?

/max
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> On 29 Apr 2015, at 19:15, Fred Bricon <fbricon at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> /max
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