Xen Orchestra new design

scottalanmiller

This is how popular XO has become!!

Danp

@olivier I seem to recall you stating that you liked constructive feedback.

olivier

@Danp Constructive mean it brings something (ideas/bugs) we don't get before ^^ If we go public beta now, we'll have hundreds of reports about missing views/known non-finished things. That's all I would say by "constructive"

olivier

Added some stuff this week, should feel a bit more complete on feature side.

Next week will be about:

finishing the home view (pool/host search, switching to host mode)
finishing the VM creation feature (with extra stuff)
validating/replugin ACLs
initial work on advanced stats view (heatmap/compare graphs)
VDI attach/add on VM view, with grab reordering
using pagination/filter for all tables

So enough to release a beta, let's say, Friday (17th).

Alex Sage

@olivier THANKS!

BRRABill

@olivier said

So enough to release a beta, let's say, Friday (17th).

A present for Father's Day weekend!

olivier

Assisted search filters for pools/hosts/tags are now working. Now on adding a switch on the home view to have also hosts.

olivier

Home view can now display hosts too. ISO can be mounted in console, Ctrl+Alt+Del is also working.

Full VM creation will land tomorrow, so we'll cover 80% of previous features. That's where we'll merge in next-release. Keep in mind that was a technical rework first (speed/architecture), we'll do a UI sweep probably for a 5.1

scottalanmiller

@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:

Home view can now display hosts too. ISO can be mounted in console, Ctrl+Alt+Del is also working.

Full VM creation will land tomorrow, so we'll cover 80% of previous features. That's where we'll merge in next-release. Keep in mind that was a technical rework first (speed/architecture), we'll do a UI sweep probably for a 5.1

Awesome!

olivier

Copy/paste in console is also now working

olivier

New heatmap: ✓
VM's VDI stuff (attach, add, boot order with drag and drop): ✓
Health view with sorted/filtered table (very useful): ✓

VM creation is not yet ready, we made a massive change (less stuff in the web side and more in the server).

You could play with it on v5.x, knowing those limitations.

Planned for next week:

finishing/validating VM creation
network creation on Pool level
major UI improvement for backup restore
major UI improvement for users/groups/ACLs
compare stats
search improvement (save search, configure default search)
UI sweep on some views (especially the wizard component)

This will lead us to a large scale beta release (also in XOA), and probably shortly after to a "final" release itself. QA work will be important, especially on ACLs side, which is critical before an official release.

Then, we could work on the UI directly, for the 5.1 ie:

adding more dataviz
improve current UI (CSS animation, avoid some non-finished/"ugly")

This would be a long process because the difference with a "rough" UI and a polished (details, transitions, animations) could cost a lot of work.

olivier

Take a look on the "pulse" on GitHub: https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/pulse/monthly

That's serious work!

88 pull requests merged
43 (!) issue closed
281 commits

Commit activity (in red since we started the rework):

olivier

Okay guys: we'll release Friday. For XOA users, they could access it via adding /v5 at the end of the current URLs (the "old" will be accessible by default). For sources users, it will be necessary to switch from stable to a specific branch (v5 probably).

This way, we could have feedback and not break stuff. Also people could compare and push feedback before we remove the "old" 4.x branch.

scottalanmiller

Awesome! can't wait to see it in action!

olivier

The "base" of this new xo-web is cleaner and well technically designed (main goal of 5.0). So, in theory, 5.1 will be mainly about UI improvements per se.

I prefer to release now than waiting 1 more month to have something "better"

olivier

Almost there!

Changelog: https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/v5.x/CHANGELOG.md#500-2016-06-24

DustinB3403

@olivier Looking awesome.

Adding greenkeeper is really going to help enhance the project.

olivier

@DustinB3403 Greenkeeper is running on all our repo since a month now

DustinB3403

@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:

@DustinB3403 Greenkeeper is running on all our repo since a month now

But you're adding it to the server now from your change log, unless I miss understand you.

This way you get the information from everyone, not just people running the dev version.

Correct?

olivier

@DustinB3403 The changelog is just telling we "fixed" this issue since the last release. It doesn't mean it was not done 1 month ago. Greenkeeper is monitoring all the GH XO repo since then.