RFC: Portlets for Conductor

Tzu-Mainn Chen tzumainn at redhat.com
Tue Oct 16 14:07:03 UTC 2012


Just to reassure, the idea is to create one or two portlet types initially as a working guide on how to do so; I'd expect more to be created as dashboard requirements become clearer.

Mainn

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Wagner" <matt.wagner at redhat.com>
> To: "Tzu-Mainn Chen" <tzumainn at redhat.com>
> Cc: aeolus-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:44:50 AM
> Subject: Re: RFC: Portlets for Conductor
> 
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:33:48AM -0400, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Matt and I have come up with a design for creating portlets in
> > Conductor for use in dashboard and the like.  Here's a summary
> > design document:
> > 
> > https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Portlets
> > 
> > Please send any feedback you may have!
> 
> I assume the lack of feedback thus far means that our plan is
> flawless.
> 
> I still find the list of display types to be fairly arbitrary. It
> seems
> to me like "Admin" is just a different filter/sort on "List," and
> that
> "Customized" is too broad -- maybe "Line Graph" could be a type?
> (Plus,
> "Administrator" isn't necessarily a boolean thing -- what if I want a
> list of deployments in a pool I don't own, but some of the
> deployments
> are mine?)
> 
> I'm not sure we need to enumerate all possible types right now -- an
> important goal, after all, is that it's easy to build on this -- but
> I
> just want to make sure we don't end up with "Customized" being the
> most-used type of portlet.
> 
> -- Matt
> 



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