devise a way to bootstrap visualizations repo during Galaxy startup

[martenson]

Given we will have https://github.com/guerler/galaxy-charts under our GH organization I believe we want to fetch it during the startup based on a config value changed by an admin(auto_init_viz?). Once the fetched files are in place Galaxy should be aware of it/check its presence (registry) and propagate the information to the frontend - so UI can be rendered appropriately offering the viz to the enduser.

Does this sound feasible?
@natefoo @guerler @jmchilton @jxtx @jgoecks @erasche @dannon

xrefs:
#2875 - charts to external repo
#1191 - distribute viz through TS
#1380 - make viz plugins more portable
#2861 - add BioJS plugins to codebase (closed)

[martenson]

One thing to mind is to not try build a second Tool Shed which this kinda leads to. E.g. how to treat updates? Where is the UI to manage these visualizations?

[natefoo]

Shouldn't there be a config file that allows an admin to configure which visualizations to fetch?

[martenson]

for now the charts extensions stay with the galaxy codebase, see #2875 for details