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Re: Plugin/3rd party content manager

 

>always add custom backend system later to complement free infra.

We do have free infrastructure that can run backend code at CERN. Just
needs to package up in a docker container and run as non-root inside the
container. Assuming also it's not some resource hog of a system that eats
the entire OpenShift cluster.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 8:47 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Seth,
>
> Yes, I planned to write up my design in google doc and open it to
> comments. I think that works best for public discussion, even though it
> requires having a google account.
>
> Design I'm thinking about requires 0 custom backend work. It will rely
> entirely on publicly available infra such as github/gitlab hosting and
> ci/cd pipelines. Admittedly that imposes some limitations on what we can do
> (and I will outline them in my doc) but we can always add custom backend
> system later to complement free infra.
> Assuming design is accepted I am interested in doing at least a minimally
> functional implementation. I have a lot of ideas but some of them will have
> to be implemented later because it's not a trivial task.
>
> Ok, I'll start working on it and will hopefully share the doc by end of
> this week.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:16 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 11/25/19 3:21 PM, Andrew Lutsenko wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is anyone currently working on some sort of plugin manager or 3rd party
>> library manager?
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1823733
>>
>> I have some ideas that I want to write down in a form of high level
>> design document and share with the group for discussion. If there is
>> already some work done in that direction I'd like to avoid duplication of
>> efforts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrew
>>
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>> Hi Andrew-
>>
>> There are a few ongoing discussions about what needs to be included and
>> the backend server design needed in addition to how the software would
>> interact with the data.
>>
>> I'd be interested to see the design document you come up with.  If you
>> are interested in doing the full implementation, it would be good to see
>> your thoughts in the design document.  If you do write this up, please
>> include it in a format/locate that allows for content-level suggestions
>> such as Google Documents or markdown document on GitLab/GitHub.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Seth
>>
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