792976 - [research] swap jingo-minify for django-compressor and django-jingo-offline-compressor

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Input :: General, defect)

Description

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Look into django-jingo-offline-compressor. See if it solves our offline and development requirements. Generally that's:

1. must work in development environments and automatically update assets (django-compressor already did this, so it probably continues to be fine)

2. must allow us to compress and collect assets on an admin node through a command such that the results get pushed out to web-servers and they aren't dealing with compressing and collecting assets

Comment 1

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Making this a 2 pointer. If it looks like it solves the problems that led us to jingo-minify, we should switch. If we bump into issues, we should help Peter sort them out.

Comment 2

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

What advantage does switching back to django-compressor & co. gain us? In particular, both requirements listed about are satisfied, to my knowledge. Is it a desire to stay cohesive with playdoh?

Comment 3

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

jingo-minify is EOLd plus it makes more sense to maintain which templates use which css/js files in the template rather than in the settings file (which you pointed out a while back).

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Comment 3 is correct but I wouldn't put this on the critical path for phase-0 or even phase-1.

Comment 5

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

(In reply to James Socol [:jsocol, :james] from comment #4)
> Comment 3 is correct but I wouldn't put this on the critical path for
> phase-0 or even phase-1.

I agree--that's why this doesn't block bug #780626. However, it'd probably help Peter if we did spend a little time with it soon which is one of the reasons I wrote it up.

Comment 6

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

I spent some time looking at this and decided we shouldn't go with django-compressor and fans.

Paul and others have had good experiences with django-pipeline, so we should look at that instead. That's a different bug, though.