Last flowcharting snapshot working in grafana 8.3.3 with some tweaks

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Last flowcharting snapshot working in grafana 8.3.3 with some tweaks

bijwaard opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Dear all,

Getting the last flowcharting snapshot to work in grafana 8.3.3 appears to raise some issues.

The snapshot link to 1.0.0b is incorrect (it points to 1.0.0a), this would be the right one

I noticed in the log that the snapshot internally uses another plugin folder name, so it needs to be renamed after unzipping:

 mkdir -p ~/Downloads
 cd ~/Downloads
 wget https://algenty.github.io/flowcharting-repository/archives/agenty-flowcharting-panel-1.0.0b-SNAPSHOT.zip
 cd /var/lib/grafana/plugins
 sudo rm -rf agenty-flowcharting-panel
 sudo unzip ~/Downloads/agenty-flowcharting-panel-1.0.0b-SNAPSHOT.zip
 sudo mv grafana-flowcharting agenty-flowcharting-panel
 sudo systemctl restart grafana-server.service
 cd -

After that it seems to work ok in grafana 8.3.3.

For further development of this plugin we could make a fork of this repository and continue where Arnoud left (since no-one beside him can add extra developers/maintainers here), any volunteers with Javascript/Typescript experience?

Kind regards,
Dennis

Jose Orlando · Answer 1 · Thu Dec 23 2021 00:43:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Way faster this version.

Arrows animation still not working :-(

x70b1 · Answer 2 · Thu Jan 20 2022 18:43:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

grafana-drawio would fit good as name.

Dennis · Answer 3 · Thu Jan 20 2022 18:54:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the suggestion, an alternative repository name could be grafana-flowcharting which sounds a bit more familiar;-) We could then keep flowcharting as the plugin name.

x70b1 · Answer 4 · Thu Jan 20 2022 19:02:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The question is if we are able to package it for grafana under this name and contribute it. Or if Grafana says: We have no access to that account so we cant reuse the name.

Dennis · Answer 5 · Thu Jan 20 2022 19:14:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Guess we can ask the grafana guys, since agenty-flowcharting is not a core plugin, don't think grafana has more access to the agenty-flowcharting repo than we have. As far as I understand the release of external plugins is from a plugin repository towards grafana not the other way around.

x70b1 · Answer 6 · Thu Jan 20 2022 19:25:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The "upload" is managed via a Grafana account. The way via grafana-plugin-repository is outdated.

Thats why I said: The question is if we can overtake this.

Dennis · Answer 7 · Thu Jan 20 2022 19:41:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like Arnaud used the old way of publishing via grafana-plugin-repository, I only see updated version history in his commits and links to his own repository.

William Bergmann Børresen · Answer 8 · Tue Feb 01 2022 20:06:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@bijwaard and @x70b1 Are you planning on making a fork of this and maintain it?
If so I would like to help a as much as I can but unfortunately I have no experience in Javascript/Typescript.
It would be a great loss for my project to lose this plugin.

Dennis · Answer 9 · Tue Feb 01 2022 20:29:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi William,
I'm willing to help out with a fork, but also have limited Javascript/Typescript experience, my developments are mainly in Python, Golang and C++.
Kind regards,
Dennis

x70b1 · Answer 10 · Thu Feb 03 2022 00:55:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No Typescript experience here. 😄

Luca Kröger · Answer 11 · Mon Feb 14 2022 04:34:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'd love to see flowcharting revived! We should propably look out for a new maintainer on https://community.grafana.com
@algenty are you willing to transfer the project over to a new maintainer? That would be awesome if you don't have the spare time to work on this.