On the one hand, this has largely been the long-term plan since I took over
active development of Horizon/OpenStack Dashboard in the Essex cycle. On the
other hand, it's a very significant undertaking to split them and has a lot of
repercussions for the flow of development, management overhead, etc. I do think
the underlying "horizon" framework module is beginning to approach a level of
maturity where it is no longer absolutely critical that it be in the same code
tree as the OpenStack Dashboard built upon it. It's taken a few years to get to
that point. It would certainly simplify packaging concerns to pull them apart
(after the initial repackaging pain). Personally, I have built several internal
tools on the Horizon framework that have nothing to do with OpenStack and I
know others have as well, so I'll say again that I am open to having this
happen *eventually*.
I think creating a blueprint for this is a great first step. We can start
identifying some of the larger issues that would need to be addressed. Once a
plan is fully worked out it should be taken to the community at large as well.
I can guarantee this won't happen in the Havana cycle, but depending how things
go I could see it being on the table in Icehouse (or later).
Thanks,
- Gabriel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Runge [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:11 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Is it the time to separate horizon and
> openstack_dashboard?
>
> On 22/06/13 06:43, Zhigang Wang wrote:
> > Current issues:
> >
> > * Some places still tight to OpenStack.
> > * It pulls all the OpenStack related dependencies, e.g., the client
> > api modules, openstack_auth, etc.
> > * The test cases.
> >
> Yes, I absolutely agree. I think you should create a blueprint to track all
> required changes and create bugs for each change.
>
> I think, splitting the code is really appreciated, but also creates some
> overhead as well (project naming etc...)
>
> Matthias
>
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