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Hi, Xinni,

I absolutely agree with Radomir. We should keep xstatic files without
modifications. We don't know if they are used outside of OpenStack or not,
so they should be the same as NPM packages


Regards,
Ivan Kolodyazhny,
http://blog.e0ne.info/

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <openstack at sheep.art.pl
> wrote:

> The whole idea about xstatic files is that they are generic, not specific
> to Horizon or OpenStack, usable by other projects that need those static
> files. In fact, at the time we started using xstatic, it was being used by
> the MoinMoin wiki project (which is now dead, sadly). The modifications you
> made are very specific to your usecase and would make it impossible to
> reuse the packages by other applications (or even by other Horizon
> plugins). The whole idea of a library is that you are using it as it is
> provided, and not modifying it.
>
> We generally try to use all the libraries as they are, and if there are
> any modifications necessary, we push them upstream, to the original
> library. Otherwise there would be quite a bit of maintenance overhead
> necessary to keep all our downstream patches. When considerable
> modification is necessary that can't be pushed upstream, we fork the
> library either into its own repository, or include it in the repository of
> the application that is using it.
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:54 AM, Xinni Ge <xinni.ge1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, team.
>>
>> Sorry for talking about xstatic repo for so many times.
>>
>> I didn't realize xstatic repositories should be provided with exactly the
>> same file as upstream, and should have talked about it at very first.
>>
>> I modified several upstream files because some of them files couldn't be
>> used directly under my expectation.
>>
>> For example,  {{ }} are used in some original files as template tags, but
>> Horizon adopts {$ $} in angular module, so I modified them to be recognized
>> properly.
>>
>> Another major modification is that css files are converted into scss
>> files to solve some css import issue previously.
>> Besides, after collecting statics, some png file paths in css cannot be
>> referenced properly and shown as 404 errors, I also modified css itself to
>> handle this issues.
>>
>> I will recheck all the un-matched xstatic repositories and try to replace
>> with upstream  files as much as I can.
>> But I if I really have to modify some original files, is it acceptable to
>> still use it as embedded files with license info appeared at the top?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Xinni Ge
>>
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