[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH ] Fix screenshots and debug reports paths.

[Shu Ming]

2014/2/28 10:32, Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia:
> On 02/27/2014 12:39 PM, Shu Ming wrote:
>> 2014/2/27 21:47, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital:
>>> Ming,
>>>
>>> Your patch solves only the DebugReports problem, while Leonardo's patch
>>> solves any difference between what UI expects and backend sets.
>> I was planing to send screenshot patch later after all of us agree
>> with the method to fix DebugReports, anyway this is another issue not
>> directly linked to my point.  My point was that:
>> 1) when one people already worked on something, the later one should
>> communicate with the  former one to avoid duplicate effort
> Sorry, Ming, I didn't see your patch in the mailing list before I sent
> mine. I apologize for that.
That is all right and it happens in open source community occasionally.  
My point is how we can improve the process to  lessen duplicate efforts 
across different timezones.

>> 2) The patch should have some soaking time to be merged, say 24 hours,
>> and people in other timezone can get an opportunity to review it.
> To be honest, I think this is not necessary. If we are talking about a
> new feature or a complex bug fix, I agree with you. But this is a fairly
> simple patch that directly solves a regression that was exposed by
> aother modification in late January. I have already discussed this in a
> scrum meeting: I think that simple patches like this one should not
> necessarily have a complete review process. Having to have a formal
> review process for every small patch is just a way to overload the
> contributors and make the project slower. But, anyway, I think this is a
> good topic for discussion on the next scrum meeting.

The point goes to  how we define what are simple patches.  IMO, this 
patch we are talking about is not simple and obvious, though it only get 
a few lines.  Because this patch change the layout of the static fies 
spreading and it get opportunity to break many URL links, CSS files, 
screen shot files &etc.

>>> In addition, IMO the point you mentioned about not expose host file
>>> system to the front is the root cause of this bug. Many UI paths were
>>> broken because the paths set up by backend was not used or followed.
>> In most cases ,we should use relative path to hide the host file
>> systems from the front users.
> The patch is not exposing anything to the front users. This path mapping
> is used internally by Cherrypy and never exposed in the UI. So I didn't
> get your point here. If someone really wants to know the real paths,
> well, this is an open source project: they will be able to see the
> source and figure out the paths in the server anyway, regardless how
> they are typed in the source code.
>
> When Kimchi is installed through RPM, we are distributing files in
> various directories, just following what is described in the unix file
> system standard (to the best of my knowledge). Hence, using absolute
> paths is mandatory as there is no common path root shared between all
> files used by Kimch
A common root path is possible, but it needs much effort to re-organize 
the paths.  I believe the " installed root path" or "src root path" may 
be the choice.  But it seems that we have two many hard-coded paths in 
Kimchi,  A non-trival  effort is needed to achieve it.

>
> If you don't think this is the case, feel free to send a patch improving
> the patch I sent before.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Leonardo Garcia
>>    Only if it must, the absolute path can be used.  I don't like the
>> idea to change all the relative static path to absolute ones.  IMO, we
>> can only use absolute path for the debugreport and screenshot path.
>> Even better, we can take more effort to re-organize the path to have a
>> reasonable root for all of the path including debugreport and
>> screenshot paths.
>>
>>> Best regards,