[katello-devel] Fwd: restructured navigation questions

Kyle Baker kybaker at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 13:00:58 UTC 2012


My responses got bounced, should work this time.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Kyle Baker" <kybaker at redhat.com>
To: jrist at redhat.com
Cc: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>, katello-devel at redhat.com, katello at lists.fedorahosted.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:53:12 AM
Subject: Re: restructured navigation questions



----- Original Message -----
> On Tue 05 Jun 2012 03:33:11 PM MDT, Kyle Baker wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Attached screenshot of proposed new menu navigation.
> >>
> >> 1. There isn't a landing menu item for Subscriptions under
> >> Subscriptions, just Activation Keys and Import History. While I
> >> understand that clicking the second level navigation,
> >> Subscriptions,
> >> brings you to the default landing page, shouldn't that default
> >> still
> >> be in the third level nav?
> >
> > Yeah good catch. We could have the Third level label be
> > 'Subscriptions List'.
> >
> >>
> >> 2. Currently we have Content Providers with sub nav of Red Hat and
> >> Custom; is Subscriptions meant to incorporate both?
> >
> > No, In 1.0 you will find a list of subscriptions under
> > Organizations and under Red Hat Provider. Breaking Subscriptions
> > out is meant to eliminate the ambiguity and redundancy. Under
> > Repositories you now have 'Custom Repos' and 'Red Hat Repos' which
> > is the same content as providers with the exception of 'Red Hat
> > Repos' which should no longer have a list of subs or an import
> > history tab. These now have the label of repos because that is
> > what they contain. We are sill mirroring content we are just doing
> > it in multiple places and are more specific with nav labels. Users
> > now have one place to see all Subs available in that environment
> > which is under 'Subscriptions' in a nice new tu-payne.
> >
> >>
> >> 3. The current flow for Custom Provider is to create the provider,
> >> create products, and then finally add repos; what is the suggested
> >> new flow?
> >
> > For the current 'Custom Provider' everything is done exactly the
> > same just the label changed and its position in the nav. For 'Red
> > Hat Provider' we have now eliminated the subscriptions from this
> > page and condensed it into one list under subscriptions. The
> > process is still the same here is well except you now import from
> > the subscription page. This is why the nav is reorganized this why
> > to imply the workflow you outlined.
> >
> > 1- Import Subs
> > 2- Enable Repos(Could add gpgs here or filter packages)
> > 3- Sync down content
> > 4- Content Search (Browser) - Find Content, Add to Sys
> > template/Changeset
> > 5- Manage Sys template/Add to change set
> > 6- Manage Changeset/Promote to next environment
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> It is my understanding that we are trying not to abbreviate the words
> "Repositories" down to "Repos"

Yeah, it should say repositories even if just for consistency sake.

> 
> -J
> 
> --
> Jason E. Rist
> Senior Software Engineer
> Systems Management and Cloud Enablement
> Red Hat, Inc.
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> 
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