Changes/DeveloperAssistantGUI

Developer Assistant GUI

Summary

The feature aims to provide GUI for devassistant package.

Owner

• Name: Petr Hracek
• Email: <phracek@redhat.com>

• Name: Bohuslav Kabrda
• Email: <bkabrda@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 20
• Last updated: 2013-07-15
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

DeveloperAssistant GUI is mostly done on the base of facelift discussion.

Current problem is with cancelling of job (SOLVED)

DeveloperAssistant creator GUI started.

Basic draft of design will done during two weeks.

Detailed Description

This feature aims to provide GUI frontend for devassistant package which currently only works on commandline.

Benefit to Fedora

Make development on Fedora easier for beginners who are afraid of/don't want to work with terminal.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • creating wizard for each specific part for devassistant backend
  • all information will be taken from devassistant engine
  • GUI for creating assistants and checking with some yaml checker.

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

Install "devassistant" package, run devassistant-gui and experiment.

User Experience

Developer Assistant GUI will be GUI tool for faster setting projects based on devassistant backend.

Dependencies

Only devassistant package itself.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: None needed
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), No

Documentation

Online documentation for GUI will be accessible at our current documentation site (https://developer-assistant.readthedocs.org), the same generated html documentation will also be accessible in a newly introduced devassistant-docs subpackage.

Release Notes

Developer Assistant GUI feature will provide graphical user interface for generating new projects using devassistant Features/DevelopersAssistant. More in-depth release notes will be produced when we actually do the release.