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Fixed horizon tag in the subject :(

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

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Ivan Kolodyazhny <e0ne at e0ne.info> wrote:

> Hi team,
>
> As you may know, Horizon uses both Python and JavaScript dependencies as
> well. All of our JS dependencies are packed into the xstatic-* packages
> which could be installed like a regular python package. All current
> xstatic-* packages could be found on the Horizon's deliverables list [1].
>
> We need all of these things to make development and packaging processes
> easier.
>
> Of course, we can't cover all cases and JS libs, so there is a manual on
> how to create new xstatic package [2].
>
>
> Historically, all xstatic-* projects were maintained by Horizon Core
> team. Probably, they were introduced even before we've got plugins
> implemented but it doesn't matter at this point.
>
> Today, when we've got dozens of horizon plugins [3], some of them would
> like to use new xstatic packages which are not existing at the moment. E.g.:
> - heat-dashboard uses some JS libs which are nor required by Horizon
> itself.
> - vitrage-dashboard team is going to use React in their plugin.
>
> We discussed it briefly on the last meeting [4], As Horizon team, we don't
> want to forbid using some 3rd-party JS lib if it's acceptable by license.
> From the other side, Horizon Core team can't maintain all xstatic-*
> packages which could be needed by plugins. That's why we decided to add
> some folks form heat-dashboard team to xstatic-* core for that projects,
> which are used only be Heat Dashboard now. IMO, it looks like a reasonable
> and fair enough solution.
>
> I think we're OK if plugin teams will share the responsibility to maintain
> their xstatic-* dependencies both with Horizon team following current
> guidelines [2].
>
> Maintaining xstatic-* project means:
> - create this repo according to the current guidelines
> - follow community rules according to stable policy
> - publish a new version of xstatic project if it's required by bugfixes,
> security fixes, new features
> - help other teams to integrate this project into their plugin.
>
>
> I hope if we agree on things above it helps both Horizon and plugin teams
> to deliver new versions faster with a limited teams capacity.
>
>
>
> [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/horizon.html#
> deliverables
> [2] https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/contributor/
> contributing.html#javascript-and-css-libraries-using-xstatic
> [3] https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/install/plugin-registry.html
> [4] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/horizon/2018/horizon.2018-06-
> 13-15.04.log.html#l-124
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Ivan Kolodyazhny,
> http://blog.e0ne.info/
>
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