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Hello there!

First, for those of you who hadn't been at Horizon design session where I
was telling & showing the Merlin framework, here is the related etherpad
[1] and the demo slides themselves [2]. Merlin wasn't the only thing shown
at that design session, I hope that some video of HotBuilder demo Drago was
showing there will soon appear in this thread.

So, the good news: the next big thing we're going to implement is to adopt
the Merlin framework as an UI toolkit for HotBuilder project (UI for
composing HOT templates using both diagrams and forms with suggestions &
validations). Thus the overarching goal for Merlin - provide a reusable
toolkit for every OpenStack project's UI which heavily relies upon YAML
templates editing - is starting to come true. (Given that we've already got
quite decent Mistral Workbook Builder UI built with Merlin). That's the
very-very high-level roadmap for Merlin project for the Liberty release
cycle, I promise to come up with a more detailed roadmap soon.

Also it seems to me that Horizon folks are still quite fine with including
Merlin toolkit as a part of core Horizon, since Merlin brings additional
value into it (consider it as a general framework for YAML-editing
widgets). They just need to take a look at it [3].

Moreover I believe that not only people in Mirantis & Rackspace are
interested in making HotBuilder available as part of upstream OpenStack. So
I'd like to reach out to every UI developer who's willing to facilitate the
adoption of Merlin (and all good Angular.js things practiced in Horizon) in
HotBuilder => making HotBuilder a Horizon plugin which is well-documented,
has a clearly understandable codebase and a good set of tests => and is
easily maintainable [by the community, eventually]. Happy hacking to us all
:).

[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-horizon-new-tech
[2]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xf9urNOOKIRL8VmvBM1fDVbgPdIbhTFyLdb2AqZYaDw/edit#slide=id.p
[3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-horizon-collab-meetup line 57
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Timur Sufiev
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