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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>, galene@lists.galene.org
Subject: [Galene]  Re: Galène management interface
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:44:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bla4enoi.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tunxarp0.wl-jch@irif.fr>

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> There's been a submission for a management interface at
>
>   https://github.com/jech/galene/pull/82
>
> The main issue right now is whether this should be merged into the Galène
> repository.  My personal opinion right now (but I might still change my
> mind) is that I'd like to see it in a separate repository (and Go module)
> that depends on Galène.  I've already started exporting some Galène
> internals in order to avoid code duplication.
>
> There are good reasons to keep the interface separate:
>
> 1. Galène is intended to be easy to integrate into an existing website
>    (imagine adding videoconferencing functionality to a cat video forum or
>    an e-learning platform).  For embedding, it would probably be better to
>    provide the right hooks for an external interface rather than
>    a complete management interface.
>
> 2. People's opinions on management interfaces are likly to be variable,
>    and therefore it would be good to not bind too closely Galène with
>    a single management interface.
>
> There are also some reasons to merge the two:
>
> I. Having a single repository will make it easier to install both at the
>    same time.
>
> II. Having a canonical management interface integrated with Galène will
>     reduce user confusion.
>
> I'd like to hear people's opinions on the subject.

I have no strong opinion about where the management interface should
live, as long as it's possible to turn it off and configure Galene
without it :)

-Toke

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-23 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-23 16:31 [Galene] " Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-04-23 17:48 ` [Galene] " ibu ☉ radempa
2021-04-23 20:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2021-04-24  5:49 ` Fabrice Rouillier
2021-04-24  6:43   ` Rémy Dernat

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