Publish plugin request: Feature Switch

[antony]

Hi There,

Posted this to the user list by accident! Oops :)

Just a quick email to request permission to publish a new plugin which
we'd like to start using: feature-switch

I realise that there are already two plugins for feature switching:
Feature Flipper and Feature Toggle. We've opted to not
contribute/modify these plugins for a number of reasons:

- Neither of these plugins have any tests (it would need to be a
complete ground-up rewrite anyway)
- Neither plugin works in Grails 2.x (One blows up quite spectacularly)
- Code style in one of the plugins is sub-optimal - re-factoring
without tests is a huge risk.
- One plugin looks like an experiment and is definitely not "production ready"
- Roughly 1 year since each plugin has been maintained

Hopefully in the near future we could discuss merging or deprecating
existing plugins if they are no longer maintained. There are plans to
add an admin page to the plugin also.

The source code can be viewed here -
https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch - your feedback is
appreciated.

Cheers,
Antony

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[Eamonn O'Connell-2]

Hi Antony,

Just a quick couple of observations:

Do you have any documentation for this ?

Also, the scm + issue management properties probably need to be
uncommented+defined in your Plugin definition file.

Eamonn

On 21 August 2012 11:15, Antony Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> Posted this to the user list by accident! Oops :)
>
> Just a quick email to request permission to publish a new plugin which
> we'd like to start using: feature-switch
>
> I realise that there are already two plugins for feature switching:
> Feature Flipper and Feature Toggle. We've opted to not
> contribute/modify these plugins for a number of reasons:
>
> - Neither of these plugins have any tests (it would need to be a
> complete ground-up rewrite anyway)
> - Neither plugin works in Grails 2.x (One blows up quite spectacularly)
> - Code style in one of the plugins is sub-optimal - re-factoring
> without tests is a huge risk.
> - One plugin looks like an experiment and is definitely not "production ready"
> - Roughly 1 year since each plugin has been maintained
>
> Hopefully in the near future we could discuss merging or deprecating
> existing plugins if they are no longer maintained. There are plans to
> add an admin page to the plugin also.
>
> The source code can be viewed here -
> https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch - your feedback is
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Antony
>
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[Antony Jones]

Hey Eammon,

Ah yes - forgot the SCM url.

Documentation is on the way :)

Cheers,
Antony

On 21 August 2012 10:26, Eamonn O'Connell <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> Just a quick couple of observations:
>
> Do you have any documentation for this ?
>
> Also, the scm + issue management properties probably need to be
> uncommented+defined in your Plugin definition file.
>
> Eamonn
>
> On 21 August 2012 11:15, Antony Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi There,
>>
>> Posted this to the user list by accident! Oops :)
>>
>> Just a quick email to request permission to publish a new plugin which
>> we'd like to start using: feature-switch
>>
>> I realise that there are already two plugins for feature switching:
>> Feature Flipper and Feature Toggle. We've opted to not
>> contribute/modify these plugins for a number of reasons:
>>
>> - Neither of these plugins have any tests (it would need to be a
>> complete ground-up rewrite anyway)
>> - Neither plugin works in Grails 2.x (One blows up quite spectacularly)
>> - Code style in one of the plugins is sub-optimal - re-factoring
>> without tests is a huge risk.
>> - One plugin looks like an experiment and is definitely not "production ready"
>> - Roughly 1 year since each plugin has been maintained
>>
>> Hopefully in the near future we could discuss merging or deprecating
>> existing plugins if they are no longer maintained. There are plans to
>> add an admin page to the plugin also.
>>
>> The source code can be viewed here -
>> https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch - your feedback is
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Antony
>>
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[pledbrook]

> Ah yes - forgot the SCM url.
>
> Documentation is on the way :)

Is it important to publish the plugin before the documentation is available?

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[tomas lin]

Documentation has been added - https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Peter Ledbrook <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> Ah yes - forgot the SCM url.
>>
>> Documentation is on the way :)
>
> Is it important to publish the plugin before the documentation is available?
>
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[pledbrook]

> Hopefully in the near future we could discuss merging or deprecating
> existing plugins if they are no longer maintained. There are plans to
> add an admin page to the plugin also.

You might be interested in platform-core and platform-ui for that.

> The source code can be viewed here -
> https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch - your feedback is
> appreciated.

It's perhaps a matter of taste, but I think it's better to point the
docs URL at the README blob directly, rather than the default page for
the plugin on GitHub. If you have a lot of folders/files in your
project, the README is pushed below the fold of the page otherwise.

And one final thing: which usernames would you like to have permission
to publish? :)

Peter

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[Antony Jones]

Hi Peter,

> You might be interested in platform-core and platform-ui for that.

Not looked into these yet, but it seems like a good excuse!

> It's perhaps a matter of taste, but I think it's better to point the
> docs URL at the README blob directly, rather than the default page for
> the plugin on GitHub. If you have a lot of folders/files in your
> project, the README is pushed below the fold of the page otherwise.

Will change this ASAP

The usernames to publish are 'antony' :)

Cheers,
Antony

On 21 August 2012 12:45, Peter Ledbrook <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> Hopefully in the near future we could discuss merging or deprecating
>> existing plugins if they are no longer maintained. There are plans to
>> add an admin page to the plugin also.
>
> You might be interested in platform-core and platform-ui for that.
>
>> The source code can be viewed here -
>> https://github.com/aiten/grails-feature-switch - your feedback is
>> appreciated.
>
> It's perhaps a matter of taste, but I think it's better to point the
> docs URL at the README blob directly, rather than the default page for
> the plugin on GitHub. If you have a lot of folders/files in your
> project, the README is pushed below the fold of the page otherwise.
>
> And one final thing: which usernames would you like to have permission
> to publish? :)
>
> Peter
>
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[pledbrook]

> The usernames to publish are 'antony' :)

Done. I thought Tomas and others might want to publish it too.

Peter

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[Antony Jones]

Tomas doesn't look fazed :)

On 21 August 2012 13:51, Peter Ledbrook <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> The usernames to publish are 'antony' :)
>
> Done. I thought Tomas and others might want to publish it too.
>
> Peter
>
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