[windup-dev] Features for Discussion

[Jess Sightler]

On 08/04/2015 10:41 AM, Brad Davis wrote:
> I'd like to have the following features, but wanted to get everyone's feedback.
>
> 1) The ability to read in effort from the XML files.
>
> User Story: User runs Windup report and doesn't agree with the effort estimate.  They would like to change the effort for a Java rule and rerun Windup, but aren't technical enough to recompile Windup.
> Proposed Solution: Having a utility that we could use to easily look up a property from the Windup XML configuration would be a great solution for this.  That way, it makes it easy for people to modify the effort.
>
>
> 2) The ability to override and disable rules from the XML.
>
> User Story: A Java rule is not providing anticipated output and needs to be excluded from the report.
> Proposed Solution: Have a simple registry of disabled rules in the XML, where the qualified Java class is provided that needs to be disabled / skipped.

I think this is a good idea, although I think that we should base it on 
the Rule Provider ID (or optionally rule id) rather than on the class name.



>
>
> Brad Davis
> Senior Manager, Red Hat Consulting
> Email: bdavis at redhat.com | c: 980.226.7865 | http://www.redhat.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> windup-dev mailing list
> windup-dev at lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/windup-dev