Re: Moving the WebUI to Vue; Repo vs Branch

[Gunnar Mills <gmills@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

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Just following back up on this after the holidays. :)

On 12/18/2019 10:00 AM, Gunnar Mills wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is a follow on to previous discussions of moving the GUI away 
> from AngularJS and to a new framework, Vue, that was discussed on the 
> list and in the GUI design workgroup meeting.
>
> See:
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-September/018299.html
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/wiki/GUI-Design-work-group
>
> The team here had some questions about Vue and wanted to answer some 
> of our and the community concerns about moving to Vue, so over the 
> last few weeks, our team has spent time working on a Vue prototype. If 
> you are interested, https://github.com/gtmills/phosphor-webui-vue
>
> This prototype has a few working panels and builds with the current 
> webui recipe, 
> https://github.com/gtmills/openbmc/commit/de6e2daef54fa5ace473a42b9ff9014cc9cb02ba
>
> IBM is committed to moving the WebUI to Vue.
> Is anyone opposed to moving to Vue?
>
> Should this work be done in a separate repo?
>
> Or a separate branch in phosphor-webui, that would be merged into the 
> master branch once this Vue rewrite becomes functionally equivalent to 
> the current AngularJS application?
>
> Would anyone stay on the current AngularJS application?
>
> We plan to maintain the current AngularJS application until the Vue 
> rewrite becomes functionally equivalent, would anyone maintain the 
> AngularJS application after such a time?
>
>

I think a new repository is the safest bet here.
Anyone opposed to a new repo for the webui vue rewrite?

Possible names:
webui
webui-v2
phosphor-webui-v2
phosphor-webui-vue
webui-vue


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