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[Pete Graner <pgraner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

If your following canonical-tech mailing list you've seen Mark's stance 
on jQuery, if not you can read the archives...

Let me say first the mess is my fault since I didn't know we had a wiki 
page that listed acceptable technologies to use in Canonical.

To remedy the situation I've asked Max one of the programmers on the QA 
team to look at other graphing toolkits & YUI for the table views. The 
current toolkit (highcharts) works around jQuery and doesn't support YUI.

This is a good time since Max has an upcoming task for reworking the 
bootspeed reporting to deal with the volume of data that it generates 
and it is deep in jQuery & highcharts.

Until then the guidance from both myself & Rick on this topic is:

* Keep what we have
* No new tools using jQuery (YUI3 is the sanctioned js toolkit)
* Max & I will investigate other options
* If the new options use any new tool kits etc. we will get them 
approved by the powers that be.
* Max will do the grunt work of refactoring the reports repo to the new 
technology.

NOTE: Don't expect this to happen overnight, if you need to create new 
reports do so, we have a migration plan as defined above.

If you have any concerns or questions please feel free to ping me or Max.

~pete
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