[Spacewalk-list] Re: [Spacewalk-devel] Need for 3 "views" of channels?

[Jesus M. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Justin Sherrill <jsherril at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the "Channels" page we currently have 3 different lists ("Relevant",
> "All", and "Retired").  This made sense for hosted, but for us can we rip
> out the "Relevant" and "Retired" lists?
>
> Currently a channel is relevant if it is x86 (32bit),  you have a system
> subscribed to it, or it is a custom channel.  IMHO a channel should be
> relevant if it exists on the satellite.
>
> Also, I believe it is causing some performance issues for some of the larger
> users of the product with many many systems (checking to see if one system
> is subscribed to each channel when you have 1000s of systems and hundreds of
> channels is time consuming).

I see value in still having relevant vs all. It allows me to see what
channels are
actually used. So if we can come up with a way to show what channels are
used and those that are not, that would suffice.


jesus