Good idea - do we have a wiki page where we collect real use cases for feature flags?
Carsten 2013/12/10 Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org> > wrote: > > ...I can see how we can implement a global feature flag within the > resource > > resolver easily, but as soon as there is some "randomness" involved, like > > enable it for specific users or N users etc. this really gets tricky.... > > I agree. Another possibility is to use dynamic ACLs to show/hide > resources to specific users/sessions based on feature flags, and > according to [1] this should be possible at the Oak level. > > At this point I think it's fairly unclear how people are actually > going to use feature flags, so if there's a way of prototyping that > that doesn't require changes to the Sling core I'd go that route. > Prototype in the simplest possible way (*), evaluate actual use cases > and go back to the drawing board once we understand the whole thing > better. > > -Bertrand > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/7j7zkuwr6pa3ckql > > (*) which my SLING-3267 patch can also enable, that's still available > there for experimenting even if we know that's not the final solution > -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
