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" <[email protected]> > To: "Tzu-Mainn Chen" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > 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 >
