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From X-Pack Removal to GA: Five Months, 82 PRs

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

On January 30th, 2021, I merged a PR called “Remove x-pack directory” into a repo that had existed for about five hours. Today, July 12th, AWS put out “OpenSearch 1.0 launches”, and opensearch.org posted its own GA announcement. Between those two dates I merged 82 pull requests into OpenSearch Dashboards. Writing down the whole arc here while it’s still fresh:

The 48 Hours Before OpenSearch Went Public

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0000

AWS announced OpenSearch today with a post called “Introducing OpenSearch”. Reading it, you wouldn’t know what the repo looked like from the inside in the days right before it went out.

My last PR before the announcement was #277, a README update, merged April 10th. Two days later the announcement went live. In the weeks before that, the PRs stopped being about renaming packages and started being about the kind of stuff you only think of once you realize actual strangers are about to look at this thing:

Renaming Kibana to OpenSearch Dashboards, One PR at a Time

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Between March 3rd and March 19th, 2021, I merged 49 pull requests into what would become OpenSearch Dashboards. That’s roughly three PRs a day for seventeen straight days, and almost all of them were doing the same kind of thing: renaming kbn-* packages to osd-*, one directory at a time.

kbn- shows up in package names, import paths, config files, build scripts, generated docs, test fixtures, and a bunch of other places that don’t all update the same way. Doing it all at once gets you a PR nobody can review and a build that’s broken in ways nobody can trace back to a single change. So we didn’t — we did it directory by directory, package by package, and shipped each piece as its own reviewable PR.

What It Actually Takes to De-Elastic a Codebase

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Right now this is still just a checkout of Kibana with a bunch of things that need to come out. Between January 30th and February 23rd, I merged eleven PRs that we labeled [PURIFY] in the title, because that’s basically what it is — going through the codebase and taking out everything that isn’t ours to keep.

None of this is public yet. I don’t know when it will be, or what shape the announcement takes when it happens. Right now it’s a repo nobody outside the team can see, and work nobody is going to write a launch blog about — not this part, anyway.

The First Commit

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0000

On January 14th, 2021, Elastic announced they were changing the license on Elasticsearch and Kibana. No more Apache 2.0 — going forward it’d be the Elastic License or SSPL instead.

I remember hearing about it at work and thinking, okay, that’s a big deal, but I didn’t know yet that it was about to become my problem.

Sixteen days later, on January 30th, I merged PR #6 — “Remove x-pack directory” — into a brand new repo called opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards. The repo had been created less than five hours earlier. I checked the timestamps later: repo created 22:10 UTC, my PR merged 02:58 UTC. Under five hours from “this repo exists” to “here’s the first commit.”