Hi all, I wanted to share where things stand with contributions to pulp-ui, and give a heads up from my perspective on the future along with some longer-term ambitions currently happening.
Current work
Nothing major is going to happen to the current codebase in the near future. A typical business as usual approach is being taken to focus on the following areas:
- Type Safety and API Client Work across current plugin implementations
- Dependency and security upkeep
- Bug fixes and small improvements
- Plugin coverage including new implementations for requested plugins
Looking ahead: next
Separately, there’s work underway to explore what pulp-ui could look like rebuilt from scratch on a modern toolchain - newer build tooling, PatternFly v6 & React 19, generated API types from OpenAPI Specifications and greater test coverage.
If this approach gains traction and support from the Pulp team, next would eventually replace the current pulp-ui implementation. Now, what was the real driver behind this:
- Nasty toolchain upgrades across multiple major & minor package versions with potential risk to cause functionality regression.
- Component sizing and bundling have gotten pretty large with no test coverage.
A sneak peek
So, here is an early, rough look at the next login screen. It is very much a work in progress with work on the new dashboard and settings pages underway.
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To build out this out, it is being roughly broken down in phases. Main areas of focus would be the following:
- Core - status, tasks, users, groups, roles, auth. All core functionality to enable plugin interactions, including the new SDK.
- Feature parity - match existing plugin functionality, starting with RPM & Ansible.
- New plugins - building on top of the current plugins covering npm, python, Debian etc.
- NEW: Cross plugin package / content search - allow developers and engineers to search and understand what is currently mirrored in Pulp for consumption. This is genuinely a new idea and will require upstream work to PulpCore.
Timeline & Thoughts
Due to the amount of work, this could take over a year to achieve. No date has been set in stone and I plan to update this thread with progress updates once a phase is completed.
At this stage, contributions are best directed towards the current implementation rather than next.
If anything sounds like a bad idea or you have any questions, please fire away on here or on Matrix.