845773 - [Tracker] move to an OS charting solution

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

To quote Gerv from bug 841397:

"AMO/Marketplace currently use the HighCharts charting library from highcharts.com. However, this code is dual-licensed under either CC-BY-NC or a proprietary license, neither of which are open source.
http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html

It is arguable whether our use of it counts as non-commercial; however, we did obtain permission from the developer, so that particular aspect is not a problem. We are not violating the license he has given us. However, the fact remains that the license is not open source, so we need to replace our use of this library with something which is. Tarek Ziade suggests Rickshaw and d3.js:
http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/"

Let's use this bug to track our move from HighCharts.

Comment 1

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Q1 is in the past. Moving to the future.

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Unblocking the things that don't really block this. We are done! Thanks mythmon!

Comment 3

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

I removed the last bits of Highcharts in this PR: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/1375#issuecomment-18247606, and it landed in: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/commit/017d8d11c7824c22d06841a16ceb4b747957ab08.

Wooh!

Comment 4

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

these dont really block because we already moved over to the OS solution.