Add links to open quickstarts in che.openshift.io

[maxandersen]

che 7 has a new notion of devfile.yml which we in theory should be able to add to the quickstarts to give links to che.openshift.io that setup a environment to edit/run most getting started projects.

This issue is to discuss this with Che team and try find what is possible and what we might need to avoid doing too much manual work.

For now biggest issues I've found:

• devfile must be in root which is counter to layout common to quickstarts where there are multiple projects and you don't want all opened/imported.
• devfile have a lot of absolute references to git repos making it impossible to do your own git clone and use them as your own reference
• tasks/commands have absolute references to how mvn command are run rather than looking up contextually to where you are (i.e. instead of '/project/quickstarts/getting-started' I would like to have a way to say 'nearest parent from current editor/context that has a pom.xml'
• how does one point to a branch with devfile.yml in it ? (using 'tree/' works: che.openshift.io/f?url=https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts/tree/che - but git refs inside it are still absolute)

[maxandersen]

to begin with we could start with explicit devfile.yml for the getting-started example.

[maxandersen]

so che.openshift.io/f?url=https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts/tree/che works and checks out the project as expected as long as there is no devfile.yaml.

If I put a devfile.yaml in there it stops checking out the project and seem to force me to have an absolute reference like:

projects:
  -
    name: console-java-simple
    source:
      type: git
      location: "https://github.com/che-samples/console-java-simple.git"projects:
  -
    name: console-java-simple
    source:
      type: git
      location: "https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts.git"

That is counter intuitive and not very flexible.

[gazarenkov]

+1 , this behavior does not look really clear.
It looks better to use 2 different parameter names for link to devfile containing directory (repository) and to the project itself.
Could you create a corresponding issue in a Che repo for better visibility?

[maxandersen]

Could you create a corresponding issue in a Che repo for better visibility?

Yes, I opened a good bunch of issues found for this issue.

eclipse-che/che#14547 is the one for more saner location/github info rest is a mix of other things:

eclipse-che/che#14546
eclipse-che/che#14548
eclipse-che/che#14549
eclipse-che/che#14550

[sunix]

linking to this one: eclipse-che/che#14506