I just stepped into nethserver-cockpit and tried some things out. At first sight, it absolutely looks awesome!
I already discovered an issue with the uptime display, that I fixed.
Diggin a bit deeper into this I wondered, how this error could happen, if there is a full blown cockpit project, that utilizes integration tests. Their implementation of the uptime display also doesn’t show seconds, but it actualizes itself to the current time, which is nice.
The thought, that comes to my mind now, is, if we’re reinventing the wheel here…
IMHO and from my professional coding experience we definetly shouldn’t reinvent the wheel with a custom API for functions that already exist, especially under a shortage of participating developers and no integration tests on our side.
I discovered that the cockpit team already adressed the use-case of developing custom plugins/modules/pages with the starter-kit. It enables one to use the whole testing infrastructure…
Is there already any progress regarding the communication with the cockpit team?
Please share your thoughts on this and don’t forget: I think it’s absolutely great to integrate cockpit and Nethserver! 