[keycloak-dev] Preview and optional features

[Stan Silvert]

I think it makes sense.  It's just a matter of whether it's worth the 
effort or not.

It's a really good idea from a marketing perspective.  Users would have 
a one-stop shop to find the cool new features that are on the way.

On 11/8/2019 1:03 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> We currently have a mechanism in place to allow features to be marked as
> preview, experimental and disabled-by-default.
>
> Enabling/disabling these features requires restarting the server and also
> it is a global option.
>
> It may be better to instead have these as options on a realm. This would
> allow enabling/disabling such features at runtime, and it would be possible
> to enable through the admin console directly.
>
> It also has the benefit of allowing certain features only for certain
> realms. For example you may want to enable impersonation only for a
> specific realm, not for all realms. Same with a preview feature you may
> want to enable it in a test realm, not for all realms.
>
> Thoughts?
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