[ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 First Beta Release is now available for testing

FERNANDO FREDIANI fernando.frediani at upx.com
Tue Oct 31 18:01:38 UTC 2017


Question is: who is the user ? There are different types of them for 
different proposes.

Fernando


On 31/10/2017 15:57, Oved Ourfali wrote:
> As mentioned earlier, this is one motivation but not the only one. You 
> see right click less and less in web applications, as it isn't 
> considered a good user experience. This is also the patternfly 
> guideline (patternfly is a framework we heavily use throughout the 
> application).
>
> We will however consider bringing this back if there will be high demand.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
> Oved
>
> On Oct 31, 2017 7:50 PM, "Darrell Budic" <budic at onholyground.com 
> <mailto:budic at onholyground.com>> wrote:
>
>     Agreed. I use the right click functionality all the time and will
>     miss it. With 70+ VMs, I may check status in a mobile interface,
>     but I’m never going to use it for primary work. Please prioritize
>     ease of use on Desktop over Mobile!
>
>
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     *From:* FERNANDO FREDIANI <fernando.frediani at upx.com
>>     <mailto:fernando.frediani at upx.com>>
>>     *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 First Beta Release
>>     is now available for testing
>>     *Date:* October 31, 2017 at 11:59:20 AM CDT
>>     *To:* users at ovirt.org <mailto:users at ovirt.org>
>>
>>
>>     On 31/10/2017 13:43, Alexander Wels wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Will the right click dialog be available in the final release?
>>>>     Because,
>>>>     currently in 4.2 we need to go at the up right corner to
>>>>     interact with
>>>>     object (migrate, maintenance...)
>>>>
>>>     Short answer: No, we removed it on purpose.
>>>
>>>     Long answer: No, here are the reasons why:
>>>     - We are attempting to get the UI more mobile friendly, and
>>>     while its not 100%
>>>     there yet, it is actually quite useable on a mobile device now.
>>>     Mobile devices
>>>     don't have a right click, so hiding functionality in there would
>>>     make no
>>>     sense.
>>     Please don't put mobile usage over Desktop usage. While mobile
>>     usage is nice to have in "certain" situations. In real day by day
>>     operation nobody uses mobile devices to do their deployments and
>>     manage their large environments. If having both options where you
>>     can switch between then is nice, but if something should prevail
>>     should always be Desktop. We are not talking about a Stock
>>     Trading interface or something you need that level or flexibility
>>     and mobility to do static things anytime anywhere.
>>
>>     So I beg you to consider well before remove things which are
>>     pretty useful for a day by day and real management usage because
>>     of a new trend or buzz stuff.
>>     Right click is always on popular on Desktop enviroments and will
>>     be for quite a while.
>>>     - You can now right click and get the browsers menu instead of
>>>     ours and you
>>>     can do things like copy from the menu.
>>>     - We replicated all the functionality from the menu in the
>>>     buttons/kebab menu
>>>     available on the right. Our goal was to have all the commonly
>>>     used actions as
>>>     a button, and less often used actions in the kebab to declutter
>>>     the interface.
>>>     We traded an extra click for some mouse travel
>>>     - Lots of people didn't realize there even was a right click
>>>     menu because its
>>>     a web interface, and they couldn't find some functionality that
>>>     was only
>>>     available in the right click menu.
>>>
>>>     Now that being said, we are still debating if it was a good move
>>>     or not. For
>>>     now we want to see how it plays out, if a lot of people want it
>>>     back, it is
>>>     certainly possible we will put it back.
>>>
>>>>>     that is something you are interested in. Its also much faster
>>>>>     and better
>>>>>     than before.
>>>>>
>>>>>>     On 31/10/2017 10:13, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>>>>>>>     The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of
>>>>>>>     the First
>>>>>>>     Beta Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of October 31st, 2017
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to
>>>>>>>     be used
>>>>>>>     in production.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask
>>>>>>>     questions and interact with developers and users.All issues
>>>>>>>     or bugs
>>>>>>>     should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     This update is the first beta release of the 4.2.0 version. This
>>>>>>>     release brings more than 230 enhancements and more than one
>>>>>>>     thousand
>>>>>>>     bug fixes, including more than 380 high or urgent severity
>>>>>>>     fixes, on
>>>>>>>     top of oVirt 4.1 series.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       *
>>>>>>>             The Administration Portalhas been completely
>>>>>>>     redesigned using
>>>>>>>          Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web
>>>>>>>     application design.
>>>>>>>          It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for
>>>>>>>     an improved
>>>>>>>          user experience.
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             There is an all-new VM Portalfor non-admin users.
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             A new High Performance virtual machinetype has been
>>>>>>>     added to the
>>>>>>>          New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal.
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             Open Virtual Network (OVN)adds support for Open
>>>>>>>     vSwitch software
>>>>>>>          defined networking (SDN).
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU.
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             The ovirt-ansible-rolespackage helps users with common
>>>>>>>          administration tasks.
>>>>>>>          *
>>>>>>>             Virt-v2vnow supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     For more information about these and other features, check
>>>>>>>     out the
>>>>>>>     oVirt 4.2.0 blog post
>>>>>>>     <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/
>>>>>>>     <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/>>.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le
>>>>>>>     architectures for:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade
>>>>>>>     instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Notes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     - oVirt Appliance is already available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     - An async release of oVirt Node will follow soon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Additional Resources:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights:
>>>>>>>     http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/>
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/
>>>>>>>     <https://www.ovirt.org/community/>
>>>>>>>     <https://www.ovirt.org/community/
>>>>>>>     <https://www.ovirt.org/community/>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     [2]
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>>>>>>>     <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt
>>>>>>>     <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/>
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>>>>>>>     <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/
>>>>>>>     <http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/>
>>>>>>>     <http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/
>>>>>>>     <http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     SANDRO BONAZZOLA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG
>>>>>>>     VIRTUALIZATION R&D
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