kibana/packages/kbn-dependency-ownership
Tomasz Kajtoch ac3fc27a53
Add conditional switching between EUI releases (#219818)
## Summary

This PR simplifies the weekly EUI upgrade and backport process by
conditionally aliasing `@elastic/eui` in shared deps webpack
configurations.

# Backstory

The EUI team (@elastic/eui-team) is responsible for keeping EUI up to
date in Kibana. Historically, this has been a relatively straightforward
(yet time-consuming) process, however, due to `8.x` backport
complexities caused by it using a different theme, it has become way
more demanding on everybody involved.

EUI is released on weekly basis. Each week, we release official EUI
versions tagged `latest` in npmjs and get a PR open that updates the
package in kibana `main`.

Our upgrade PRs tend to require anywhere between 2 and 25 codeowner
reviews due to the number of snapshots we need to update while working
on the EUI upgrade PRs. These snapshot changes are 99% of the time
harmless, yet it still takes 2+ full workdays to ping teams and get all
reviews necessary to get the PR merged. Generally speaking, we aim to
have the upgrade PR open on Monday and merged by Friday.

## The issue with `8.x` backports

Kibana 8.x uses the Amsterdam theme instead of Borealis, which is used
in Kibana 9.0 and up. To keep 8.x up to date, for each official EUI
release we prepare another special Kibana 8.x only release of EUI (e.g.,
`101.2.0-amsterdam.0`). These special releases have the theme hardcoded
to Amsterdam at compile-time to avoid any initial theme errors Kibana
could otherwise experience. This is done primarily because some areas in
Kibana read EUI theme values outside of React components, and we have no
stable way to determine what the active theme is since there's no
context information. This is where we need to fall back to Amsterdam in
8.x and Borealis in 9.x.

**Since there are two different EUI versions - one for Kibana `main` and
9.0, and another for 8.x branches, we cannot use the automated backports
feature**. Instead, we open two separate PRs and configure backport
labels accordingly. Having two PRs is far from ideal since codeowners
need to review our changes twice, and we're more likely to make
mistakes.

# Our proposal

Following the recently introduced React version switching logic, we want
to conditionally switch between two `@elastic/eui` releases depending on
the kibana branch/version while keeping automated backports possible.

To achieve that, I added a dependency alias `@elastic/eui-amsterdam`
that points to the Amsterdam EUI release and configured `resolve.alias`
in shared deps to resolve the correct dependency based on the optional
`EUI_AMSTERDAM` environment variable. When this change is merged to
`main` and backported to `9.0` and `8.19`, I'll open a follow-up PR to
the `8.19` branch updating the default value of `EUI_AMSTERDAM` to
`"true"`. This should result in no conflicts and be easy to follow.

Since 8.19 [uses the Amsterdam release of
`@elastic/eui`](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/8.19/package.json#L126)
(e.g., `101.2.0-amsterdam.0`), there's no risk backporting this PR as-is
without `EUI_AMSTERDAM` configured beforehand.

## What does it change?

With this setup, we'll be able to update versions of `@elastic/eui` and
`@elastic/eui-amsterdam` at the same time in a single PR and make use of
automated kibana backports. There will be only one set of changes to
review by codeowners, and if there are any failing tests when
backporting to `8.19` due to, for example, changed color values, we can
follow the regular kibana procedures and fix them right in the created
backport PR. It'll simplify our workflow quite drastically while keeping
the same level of quality.

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Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-05-28 15:41:19 +02:00
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bin Dependency Ownership CLI (#201773) 2024-11-29 17:18:36 +01:00
src Add conditional switching between EUI releases (#219818) 2025-05-28 15:41:19 +02:00
jest.config.js Dependency Ownership CLI (#201773) 2024-11-29 17:18:36 +01:00
kibana.jsonc Dependency Ownership CLI (#201773) 2024-11-29 17:18:36 +01:00
package.json Dependency Ownership CLI (#201773) 2024-11-29 17:18:36 +01:00
README.md Dependency Ownership CLI (#201773) 2024-11-29 17:18:36 +01:00
tsconfig.json Add check to fail CI if any dependencies are unowned (#206679) 2025-01-16 09:59:04 -05:00

@kbn/dependency-ownership

A CLI tool for analyzing package ownership.


Table of Contents

  1. Show all packages owned by a specific team
  2. Show who owns specific dependency
  3. List all dependencies with without owner
  4. Generate dependency ownership report

1. Show all packages owned by a specific team

Use this command to list all packages or plugins within a directory that use a specified dependency.

node scripts/dependency_ownership -o <owner>

or

node scripts/dependency_ownership --owner <owner>

Example:

node scripts/dependency_ownership -o @elastic/kibana-core
  • -o @elastic/kibana-core: Specifies the team.

Output: Lists dev and prod dependencies.

{
  "prodDependencies": [
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    "<dependency_3>",
    //...
  ],
  "devDependencies": [
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ]
}

2. Show who owns specific dependency

Get the owner for a specific dependency.

node scripts/dependency_ownership -d <dependency>

or

node scripts/dependency_ownership --dependency <dependency>

Example:

node scripts/dependency_ownership -d rxjs
  • -d rxjs: Specifies the dependency.

Output: Lists owners for rxjs.

[
  "@elastic/kibana-core"
]

3. List all dependencies with without owner

To display all dependencies that do not have owner defined.

node scripts/dependency_ownership --missing-owner

Example:

node scripts/dependency_ownership --missing-owner

Output: Lists all dev and prod dependencies without owner.

{
  "prodDependencies": [
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ],
  "devDependencies": [
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ]
}

4. Generate dependency ownership report

Generates a comprehensive report with all dependencies with and without owner.

node scripts/dependency_ownership --missing-owner

Example:

node scripts/dependency_ownership --missing-owner

Output: Lists all covered dev and prod dependencies, uncovered dev and prod dependencies, dependencies aggregated by owner.

{
  "coveredProdDependencies": [ // Prod dependencies with owner
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ],
  "coveredDevDependencies": [ // Dev dependencies with owner
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ],
  "uncoveredProdDependencies": [ // Prod dependencies without owner
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ],
  "uncoveredDevDependencies": [ // Dev dependencies without owner
    "<dependency_1>",
    "<dependency_2>",
    //...
  ],
  "prodDependenciesByOwner": { // Prod dependencies aggregated by owner
    "@elastic/team_1": ["<dependency_1>"],
    "@elastic/team_2": ["<dependency_1>"],
  },
  "devDependenciesByOwner": { // Dev dependencies aggregated by owner
    "@elastic/team_1": ["<dependency_1>"],
    "@elastic/team_2": ["<dependency_1>"],
  },
}

For further information on additional flags and options, refer to the script's help command.