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Hi Gustavo,

I am sorry, but I can't speak for the horizon team (I primarily work
on Octavia and Designate). That said, in the OpenStack community
contributions are always welcome.
I know there has been a discussion about working on a new dashboard
project called skyline[1], so I would recommend having a discussion
with the horizon team before investing a lot of time on the current
code base. That said, I would expect a blueprint and/or specification
would mostly apply to both projects.

The link you provided is for a deployment project "OpenStack Charms"
and is likely not the process that the horizon team uses.
Horizon has a developer guide here:
https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/contributor/index.html
This includes a section on creating a new feature for horizon.

I would recommend creating the blueprint and even the specification to
get the discussion started if you are not getting a timely response on
the email list.

Michael

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-August/024088.html

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:00 PM Gustavo Faganello Santos
<gustavofaganello.santos at windriver.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello, Michael!
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> It's nice to see that some work has already been done for auto-refresh
> in AngularJS pages. That could come in handy for tackling the issue I
> described previously.
>
> With that in mind, would you know if the Horizon cores would be open to
> us submitting our auto-refresh for Django pages upstream?
>
> If so, should the feature be a bit more thoroughly discussed via e-mail
> before a spec is submitted for review in Gerrit? Looking to follow these
> steps:
> https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/feature-specification.html
>
> Please let me know if those are not the best steps to follow at this
> first moment.
>
> Thank you!
> Gustavo F. Santos
>
> On 18/08/2021 20:44, Michael Johnson wrote:
> > Hi Gustavo,
> >
> > The Octavia pages (AngularJS) auto refresh like you are describing.
> > The start of that work was this patch:
> > https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia-dashboard/+/561458 in
> > case it is helpful.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 1:46 PM Santos, Gustavo Faganello
> > <GustavoFaganello.Santos at windriver.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello, everyone.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm here to find out what you think about the addition of a feature in OpenStack Horizon. As you may know, Horizon requires the user to manually update the page in order to get the most recent data in the system, e.g. if an instance is created, deleted or renamed before the page is reloaded, the user has to hit the refresh button in their browser to see those changes in the page. This applies to the majority of Horizon's pages, including, but not limited to, Instances, Volumes, Users and so on.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> With that in mind, our team has implemented and tested a prototype of an auto-refresh feature for Horizon. We've been using it for a while now and have received positive feedback from our clients. It automatically updates the information in tables, pie charts (such as the Compute Overview page graphs) and details pages every five seconds, without the need for manually refreshing the page. The information displayed on the page will be replaced by the most recent data without any action from the user or any page reloading. It essentially works by requesting, in the background, the opened page again and again every few seconds through AJAX, and then replacing the old information with the new one if they differ. The feature affects every element in Horizon, except AngularJS ones - the tables in the Compute Images, Key Pairs and Server Groups pages are AngularJS elements and will not be affected by auto-refresh, for example. We are open to looking into this issue in the future, though.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Could you please let us know if you would be open to adding such a feature to Horizon? If so, we'd be willing to do the upstream implementation in OpenStack, and we think it would be a great addition to the end users.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind regards.
> >>
> >> Gustavo Santos