On 21 Mar 10:57, Augustin Husson wrote:
> Hello Julien,
> 
> I'm not sure I'm following what you would like.
> Do you mean you would like to fallback to the situation before we had
> codemirror into the upstream repo ? And so having only the react-app in
> Prometheus ? (which removes the requirement to use the nmp workspaces
> feature).
> 
> That's another way yeah, but that would be a regression from my point of
> view since you will have to ensure again that codemirror-promql is
> correctly synchronized with the changes of PromQL.
> 
> Probably releasing codemirror-promql with the same tag and same version of
> Prometheus is the simplest way to release it and will allow us to put in
> common the different deps used between codemirror-promql and the react-app.
> It will create many releases with no changes for codemirror-promql, but
> that would be the garantie that the version v2.35.0 of codemirror-promql is
> compatible with the same version of Prometheus.
> 
> Regards,
> Augustin.

It means we will have to make the release CI release codemirror first,
then Prometheus. How do we commit the codemirror release hash in the
package.lock, in a single commit/tag?

Regards,

> 
> 
> Le lun. 21 mars 2022 à 10:26, Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
> 
> > On 17 Mar 14:05, Augustin Husson wrote:
> > > Dear Prometheus developers,
> > >
> > > As you may know, since a couple months ago, we changed the way the UI is
> > > organized to be able to include the project codemirror-promql directly in
> > > Prometheus. The idea was when changing the PromQL syntax, we also modify
> > > codemirror-promql so we don't have any desync between the UI and the
> > > backend.
> > >
> > > We are using the npm workspace feature which is the way with npm to
> > manage
> > > a mono-repo, and since this moment we have some troubles to upgrade the
> > UI
> > > dependencies like:
> > >
> > >    - Not every files are correctly updated by dependabot
> > >    - There are some conflicts between the dependencies used in
> > >    codemirror-promql and in the react-app. Basically a dependency A in
> > >    codemirror-promql could be upgraded, but cannot in the react-app
> > because
> > >    the react-app has some constraints that prevent this upgrade. Which
> > leads
> > >    to not necessarily knowing which version of the dependency A is used.
> > >
> > > With just these two points above, updating the UI dependencies require
> > too
> > > much knowledge about how the npm workspaces are working and it is hard to
> > > automatize.
> > >
> > > Since the last version where @Bjoern Rabenstein <[email protected]>
> > faced
> > > some difficulties to upgrade the UI dependencies, I have been thinking
> > > about how to improve the situation. I have compared the Prometheus repo
> > > with what we are doing in Perses where it is working without any issues
> > > (aka using a npm monorepo).
> > > And my conclusion is actually: we didn't embrace the way the monorepo is
> > > supposed to work in the UI way.
> > >
> > > What we did is to put a side project (codemirror-promql) alongside of the
> > > react-app without changing a thing. But instead we should actually align
> > > and put in common a certain amount of dependencies used across the
> > > different UI modules.
> > > It wasn't possible to align the dependencies because we (actually I)
> > said,
> > > it will be cool to synchronize codemirror-promql to the repo
> > > prometheus/codemirror-promql where we will make the release.
> > > And for that, we need to build the repo which requires some
> > > dev-dependencies ...etc so that cannot be put in common with the
> > react-app.
> > >
> > > And like that we still have a tag associated with the release of
> > > codemirror-promql.
> > >
> > > So after this tentative to explain the situation, here what I would like
> > to
> > > do, and where I would like your opinion on:
> > >
> > > I would like to stop the synchronization of the codemirror-promql. So we
> > > need to find a new way to release codemirror-promql directly in the
> > > Prometheus repository.
> > >
> > > So we could say, it is released at the same time as Prometheus itself.
> > And
> > > then:
> > >
> > >    - With the same version. So we will bump the version of codemirror
> > from
> > >    0.19.0 to 2.35.
> > >    - Its own version (with a sort of script to know if codemirror-promql
> > >    has to be released since the Prometheus release or not).
> > >
> > > In both cases, the release of codemirror-promql will be behind the unique
> > > tag of Prometheus. (i.e. v2.X.Y)
> > >
> > > Once we find the way, I will make the changes and after a couple of PRs
> > we
> > > should be back to a situation where with a quick command we will be able
> > to
> > > update or upgrade the UI dependencies. (The command is already known and
> > I
> > > experimented in Perses).
> > >
> > > Sorry for the long email, I tried to explain why it's a bit hard to
> > upgrade
> > > the dependencies and it's actually quite hard to explain without entering
> > > in too much detail.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > > Augustin.
> >
> > Hello Augustin,
> >
> > I agree that the current way of working is painful. I'd be in favour of
> > having codemirror living its own lifecycle outside of the main
> > repository.
> >
> > It will also be easier for downstream builders. NPM workspaces are not
> > supported everywhere yet (see
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/156078).
> >
> > As far as I am concerned, we could implement the change ASAP.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Julien Pivotto
> > @roidelapluie
> >
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