We are in the process of removing the redundancy between Project and Admin by using RBAC to allow sharing of one code base for multiple roles. This is a WIP.
David On 5/28/14, 1:53 PM, "Tzu-Mainn Chen" <tzuma...@redhat.com> wrote: >Hi Doug, > >Thanks for the response! I agree with you in the cases where we are >extending >things like panels; if you're extending those, you're extending the >dashboard >itself. However, things such as workflows feel like they could >reasonably live >independently of the dashboard for re-use elsewhere. > >Incidentally, I know that within openstack_dashboard there are cases >where, say, >the admin dashboard extends instances tables from the project dashboard. >That >feels a bit odd to me; wouldn't it be cleaner to have both dashboards >extend >some common instances table that lives independently of either dashboard? > >Thanks, >Tzu-Mainn Chen > >----- Original Message ----- >> Hey Tzu-Mainn, >> >> I've actually discouraged people from doing this sort of thing when >> customizing Horizon. IMO it's risky to extend those panels because they >> really aren't intended as extension points. We intend Horizon to be >> extensible by adding additional panels or dashboards. I know you are >> closely involved in Horizon development, so you are better able to >>manage >> that better than most customizers. >> >> Still, I wonder if we can better address this for Tuskar-UI as well as >> other situations by defining extensibility points in the dashboard >>panels >> and workflows themselves. Like well defined ways to add/show a column >>of >> data, add/hide row actions, add/skip a workflow step, override text >> elements, etc. Is it viable to create a few well defined extension >>points >> and meet your need to modify existing dashboard panels? >> >> In any case, it seems to me that if you are overriding the dashboard >> panels, it's reasonable that tuskar-ui should be dependent on the >> dashboard. >> >> Doug Fish >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Tzu-Mainn Chen <tzuma...@redhat.com> >> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" >> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, >> Date: 05/28/2014 11:40 AM >> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Horizon][Tuskar-UI] Location for common >> dashboard code? >> >> >> >> Heya, >> >> Tuskar-UI is currently extending classes directly from >>openstack-dashboard. >> For example, right now >> our UI for Flavors extends classes in both >> openstack_dashboard.dashboards.admin.flavors.tables and >> openstack_dashboard.dashboards.admin.flavors.workflows. In the future, >> this sort of pattern will >> increase; we anticipate doing similar things with Heat code in >> openstack-dashboard. >> >> However, since tuskar-ui is intended to be a separate dashboard that has >> the potential to live >> away from openstack-dashboard, it does feel odd to directly extend >> openstack-dashboard dashboard >> components. Is there a separate place where such code might live? >> Something similar in concept >> to >> >>https://github.com/openstack/horizon/tree/master/openstack_dashboard/usag >>e >> ? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Tzu-Mainn Chen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev