[almighty] Names and Definitions

[Todd Mancini]

FYI, there is a glossary at the end of the PDD, so this discussion will
hopefully lead to good content for there. (I think we've got Mitch to thank
for the initial glossary work.)

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com>
wrote:

> P.S. I noticed your reference to bug tracking - will this be an external
> system (bugzilla, JIRA, git, etc.) or something that we will build in?
>
> Yes. :P
> It's our own view of the issue-tracking world, so it's internal.
> Additionally we will be using other systems as extensible backends and
> data
> providers.
>
> to be clear - almighty notion of remote issues is explicitly kept simple
> so we do *not* need to treat them as backends, but mainly data providers.
>
> Could we in future use GitHub and jira as our backend for issues ? I doubt
> it. Could we make it so we could sync more data between the systems ? Sure
> - but I think we can get more done and be more useful to users if we do not
> try and treat the remote issue trackers as backends.
>
> By definition - if they are remote issues they are *not* in a backend, if
> they are in our backend they are not remote issues.
>
> /max
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Andrew Lee Rubinger <alr at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> Something I'd like to iron out sooner than later are common terms and
> definitions, because getting to a mutual understanding about what we're
> referring to starting to be pretty relevant. :)
> Alongside the discussions we had on this list last week, could I ask the
> UXD team to take the lead on moderating the definitions and relationships
> among the following constructs? A graphical representation of
> relationships where appropriate would be wonderful.
> * "Almighty System" - An instance of Almighty. Contains all "Almighty
> User" accounts and "Almighty Projects".
> * "Almighty Project" - A top-level container for an application shared
> among users/teams. May hold N "Codebases", has issue tracking, build and
> deployment environments. Eventually will have realtime communications.
> * "Codebase" - Basically a repository. Can be N in a "Project"
> * "Environment" - Target for running builds or deployments
> * "Almighty User" - My account
> * "Workspace" - The WebIDE view of an "Almighty Project". Contains the
> "Codebases", each of which may require its own Stack to be built/tested.
> * "Stack" - Runtime to build a codebase or deploy its resultant
> artifacts. In practice, equates to an image which may be run as a
> container. NOTE: currently Che, as I understand it, has one Stack per
> Workspace. We'll need to address that in order to support opening, for
> instance, a Java codebase and a Node codebase in the same workspace.
> * Other important concepts I've missed here
> The terms definitions I'm using here are placeholders and could likely do
> with something else that's descriptive and not so overloaded. The
> definitions are also up for debate -- everything is open to review now,
> but
> let's try to get things at this level to gel quickly.
> S,
> ALR
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