Outlook for this webinterface

[SchoolGuy]

I (@SchoolGuy) am currently working to restore the basic CRUD functionality of the web interface. This is due to the big number of API functions (~130) and a lot of custom data structures that need to be mapped a lot of work. However I try to give you a rough timing wise overview about what my plan is.

The current status of how my progress is can be followed at: https://github.com/orgs/cobbler/projects/1

The rough plan is to add one item type functionality or one Cobbler Action per week. If we follow that we have the following setup:

• 10 items x Create, Read Update, Delete
• 5 actions x Execute
• 1 settings x Create, Read, Update, Delete
• 1 events x Read
• 1 welcome page x Read

This means I have 51 work pages. Which means creating this would take roughly one year if I am very active. However (open)SUSE has the annual Hackweek coming up where I have chosen this as my project. Details can be seen here. This means that hopefully I can get 6 work packages done in the coming week at least.

My initial focus will be on the Read functionality and being able to execute the actions. After that Deletion and Creation will follow with the last thing to do will be the Updates (as this is the hardest part).

For the server and Golang part of Cobbler this means pretty much that it will only be continued during work time and thus means it will slow down a lot. Most likely I will pair the 1.0 release of the web interface with the release of 3.4.0 then.

Last but not least: My hope is that once I am more fluent in Angular and Typescript (as of today I am not very fluent), I hope that the progress can be increased because I get more knowledgeable.

CC @hbokh