Hey astronauts We have been planning features for SUSE Manager and we are asking ourselves if for some of them it makes sense to do it with the current "stack".
As part of the CSS re-factoring upstream we lost all our re-branding work, which is fine, because we had forked the CSS so we kind of deserve it :-). However even by doing it by cascading a .css file at the end, it is cumbersome to override the previous styles. The world outside keeps moving and people are nowadays solving these problems by standardizing the css framework a bit eg: twitter bootstrap, where you have a very nice standard theme to start with, and then you can customize it in a standard way, as all css rules are documented and standarized. We already are using bootstrap in other SUSE products, and other major opensource projects (eg: OpenStack, OpenShift, etc) are also using it. We could start using bootstrap for new features, but we would be afraid to have them rejected by upstream. But another possibility would be to contribute upstream a port of all the styling to bootstrap from the beginning, which would be a mega-patch, but we would not start working on something like this without having discussed whether this is wanted or not. This would mean basically replace all css rule names of all pages. Similar discussions go in other areas of the web stack. We are realizing for some features we could "avoid" struts and use a client side Javascript framework (AngularJS, batman.js, etc) and have the Java web framework provide the data. Would features using a client side framework be rejected? I wanted to ask what is upstream strategy on these topics. Which kinds of contributions would be welcome and desired by Redhat (that is the biggest contributor)? Which aren't?, so that we, SUSE, as a frequent contributor and community members could align ourselves to this. We are trying to keep SUSE Manager as close to Spacewalk as possible, but we also don't want to get stuck without good reasons. Regards, -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel