On Dec 19, 2013, at 12:42 PM, James Strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
> but if folks are worried about having a console from a different open > source project inside ActiveMQ we can easily rip it out; it was only added > to try give users a better experience of using ActiveMQ (particularly as > the old-not-really-maintained console sucks ass & is huge). Ripping it out is certainly one option. Probably not the one I would advocate, but I’m not on the PMC here (not even a committer) nor on hawt.io and really don’t have a say. Personally, I’d like to see a hawt.io (or other) based console here that would make ActiveMQ a bit more approachable. ActiveMQ is fairly complex and not having at least some basic console or something that the users can use to see what is going on could potentially make the “support” burden here even higher. However, as Chris stated, if there is going to be something here, it would have to meet Apache’s requirements. Dropping hawt.io directly in obviously does not. I don’t know enough (well, anything) about hawt.io’s architecture or internals or anything to know how easy/hard it would be to have a console here built on top of hawt.io, but fully branded and and controlled and such per Apache and with the ActiveMQ “plugin” or whatever provide here. There are a lot of very smart people that are part of hawt.io’s development so I assume there is some level of plug ability and such there, but I could be completely wrong. (on a side note, having something outside of hawt.io that could showcase HOW to add a “plugin” to hawt.io would be very useful as an example to other projects that would like to use hawt.io or add functionality to hawt.io. I’m actually thinking CXF as CXF has a bunch of things like security caches and thread pools and such that would be cool to provide better admin capabilities.) As I said, I’d strongly prefer (for admittedly selfish reasons) having at least some basic console provided here. Many users use the web console (evidenced by questions about it just today on the karaf list) and I know many of our (Talend’s) customers use it. Maybe if we could create some JIRA’s of some of the deficiencies in the existing console, that could be something people could jump in and help out with. Right now, I just see 3 open issues for the console (one logged today): https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20component%20%3D%20webconsole%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open Could we possibly get some basic ideas logged there? Are there bits of information that are missing that would be relatively easy to add? Dan > On 19 December 2013 17:17, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> >> First let me introduce myself. My name is Chris Mattmann and I'm >> currently a member of the Apache board. I took a look at the goings-on >> related to the recent change in the web console, where now it appears >> the first link on a standard deployment of ActiveMQ and its web console >> points to a web console from hawtio. >> >> I don't really have any skin in the game on which company built what, or >> who's is better, etc. I have been around the ASF for nearly a decade and >> have been through the trials by fire of Lucene, Hadoop, and a number of >> the ASF's largest projects. >> >> I *do* however have a problem that the ActiveMQ PMC now is stewarded a >> product, *Apache ActiveMQ* wherein which that product ships with a web >> console that includes a first link to what appears to me at least to be >> a specific company's product *hawtio web console*. >> >> With my Director hat on -- this is unacceptable and needs to be fixed. >> So let's discuss how this came about, and what can be done to fix it. >> I don't have time and haven't read through all the prior history and >> threads, but I'm happy to read through links folks have for me to check >> out, >> and also happy to help lend a hand towards addressing this. It can be >> addressed >> in various ways, so let's talk about it. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> > > > -- > James > ------- > Red Hat > > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: jstrachan, fusenews > Blog: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > > Open Source Integration -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
