+1 As long as the CLI covers everything I feel we can live with a minimal GUI that could be limited to the top menu and a user settings page for now.
Let's discuss it at today's grooming ! ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tristan Cacqueray" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:27:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Softwarefactory-dev] Regarding API key auth patches > > On 07/18/2016 10:39 AM, Matthieu Huin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As you might remember a few sprints ago I demo-ed the ability to generate > > an API key and use it as a way to authenticate when using the CLI. The aim > > is to allow any user to access operations through the CLI that they'd be > > able to do on the GUI, so it is relevant with the user adoption epic. > > > > Unfortunately these patches are still in review despite being ready for > > merging here: http://softwarefactory-project.io/r/#/q/topic:API_key_auth > > (except for a cauth patch I need to rebase manually but it should be > > trivial). What's missing is some form of GUI integration (as this is where > > the API key should be managed). Since it's not fun having to rebase > > periodically, I was thinking it was time to do something about the GUI. We > > can either: > > > > - embrace our lack of HTML-fu for the time being and go full CLI. We remove > > the dashboard completely, but we have to ensure that sfmanager is > > feature-complete which is not the case at the moment (for example, it is > > missing a way to list projects ...). We would still need a kind of a > > "settings" page where a user can generate the Gerrit key and the API key, > > and eventually configure her details (instead of changing them in every > > service). > > - keep the dashboard but rethink it, adding a "settings" section to it. > > > > Any way we go we need to take some time to rethink things. Shall we > > schedule a grooming session on this topic ? > > > > Hello Matthieu, > > Thank you for bringing this to the mailing list. Your reviews are > looking good to me. > > I feel like the dashboard is sub-optimal as it is now, and we may > embrace our lack of HTML-fu to focus on CLI interaction. Lets use > the next grooming session to thinker how to use this new API key > mechanism to build out of bound dashboards, e.g. without slowing > core components development. > > Cheers, > -Tristan > > > _______________________________________________ > Softwarefactory-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/softwarefactory-dev > _______________________________________________ Softwarefactory-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/softwarefactory-dev
