Add entity-feedback workspace #1790

durandom · 2026-01-14T13:40:19Z

Summary

Adds Entity Feedback plugin from backstage/community-plugins to RHDH Extensions Catalog.

Upstream: https://github.com/backstage/community-plugins/tree/main/workspaces/entity-feedback
License: Apache 2.0
Upstream Backstage version: 1.45.3 (exact match with RHDH target)

Plugins

Plugin	Package	Version
Frontend	`@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback`	0.12.0
Backend	`@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-backend`	0.14.0

Plugin Features

Like/Dislike or Star rating system for catalog entities
Feedback collection with customizable response categories
Aggregated rating displays on entity pages
Requires authentication (not compatible with guest users)

Checklist

source.json created (commit 8f9b3b0)
plugins-list.yaml created (with --embed-package @backstage/plugin-notifications-node)
CODEOWNERS updated
/publish triggered - images published
Metadata files added
Plugin entity created
Local verification with RHDH Local

Verification

Tested locally with RHDH Local using PR artifacts:

✅ Both plugins load without errors in container logs
✅ Backend initializes: Initializing Entity Feedback backend
✅ Frontend loaded: Loaded dynamic frontend plugin '@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-dynamic'
⚠️ Full rating functionality requires authentication (guest mode won't work)

Published Images

ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback:pr_1790__0.12.0
ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend:pr_1790__0.14.0

Notes

Backend requires @backstage/plugin-notifications-node embedded (for owner notifications feature)
Plugin integrates with Backstage Notifications system

Pull request overview

This PR adds the Entity Feedback workspace from the Backstage community-plugins repository, enabling like/dislike and star rating functionality for catalog entities in RHDH. The workspace targets Backstage version 1.45.3, which is the current target version used across many workspaces in this repository.

Changes:

Added entity-feedback workspace configuration files
Updated CODEOWNERS to assign ownership

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
workspaces/entity-feedback/source.json	Defines source repository (backstage/community-plugins) at commit 8f9b3b0 with Backstage version 1.45.3
workspaces/entity-feedback/plugins-list.yaml	Lists the frontend and backend plugins to be packaged from the workspace
.github/CODEOWNERS	Adds @durandom as owner for the entity-feedback workspace, correctly positioned alphabetically

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github-actions · 2026-01-14T13:45:49Z

Publish workflow has completed with success.

Published container images:
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback:pr_1790__0.12.0
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend:pr_1790__0.14.0

Backstage Compatibility Check

✅ All workspaces are compatible with the target Backstage version (1.45.3).

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github-actions · 2026-01-14T13:46:18Z

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Test workflow skipped: missing plugin metadata files (<workspace>/metadata/*.yaml).

durandom · 2026-01-14T13:49:44Z

/publish

github-actions · 2026-01-14T13:54:48Z

Publish workflow has completed with success.

Published container images:
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback:pr_1790__0.12.0
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend:pr_1790__0.14.0

Backstage Compatibility Check

✅ All workspaces are compatible with the target Backstage version (1.45.3).

No action required.

github-actions · 2026-01-14T13:59:44Z

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Test workflow failed.

⚠️ Integration tests failed. Check the workflow logs for details.

These plugins failed to load:
backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend

Error logs from container

�[2m2026-01-14T13:59:23.897Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Resolving '@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-backend/package.json' in the dynamic backend plugins 
�[2m2026-01-14T13:59:23.897Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Resolved '@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-backend/package.json' at /opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/package.json 
�[2m2026-01-14T13:59:23.898Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[31merror�[39m an error occurred while loading dynamic backend plugin '@backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-backend-dynamic' from 'file:///opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend' Cannot find module '@backstage/plugin-notifications-node'
Require stack:
- /opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/plugin.cjs.js
- /opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/index.cjs.js
-  �[36mcode�[39m="MODULE_NOT_FOUND" �[36mrequireStack�[39m=["/opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/plugin.cjs.js","/opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/index.cjs.js",null] �[36mstack�[39m="Error: Cannot find module '@backstage/plugin-notifications-node'\nRequire stack:\n- /opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/plugin.cjs.js\n- /opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/index.cjs.js\n- \n    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1383:15)\n    at module._resolveFilename (/opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-dynamic-feature-service/dist/loader/CommonJSModuleLoader.cjs.js:39:16)\n    at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1025:19)\n    at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1030:22)\n    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1192:37)\n    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)\n    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:237:24)\n    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1463:12)\n    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:147:16)\n    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend/dist/plugin.cjs.js:5:31)\n    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1706:14)\n    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1839:10)\n    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1441:32)\n    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1263:12)\n    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)\n    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:237:24)"
�[2m2026-01-14T13:59:23.946Z�[22m �[34mrootHttpRouter�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Listening on :7007 
�[2m2026-01-14T13:59:23.948Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Plugin initialization started: 'healthcheck', 'app', 'catalog', 'proxy', 'scaffolder', 'search', 'events', 'permission', 'auth', 'dynamic-plugins-info', 'scalprum', 'translations', 'licensed-users-info', 'user-settings' �[36mtype�[39m="initialization"

durandom · 2026-01-14T14:02:16Z

/publish

github-actions · 2026-01-14T14:07:53Z

Publish workflow has completed with success.

Published container images:
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback:pr_1790__0.12.0
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend:pr_1790__0.14.0

Backstage Compatibility Check

✅ All workspaces are compatible with the target Backstage version (1.45.3).

No action required.

Adds Entity Feedback plugin from backstage/community-plugins to RHDH Extensions Catalog. - Frontend: @backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback (0.12.0) - Backend: @backstage-community/plugin-entity-feedback-backend (0.14.0) - Upstream: backstage/community-plugins @ 8f9b3b0 - Backstage version: 1.45.3 (exact match)

- Package metadata for frontend and backend plugins - Plugin entity for Extensions Catalog - Added to all.yaml for catalog discovery

The backend plugin requires @backstage/plugin-notifications-node which needs to be bundled into the dynamic plugin.

durandom · 2026-01-14T14:08:43Z

/publish

sonarqubecloud · 2026-01-14T14:09:13Z

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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github-actions · 2026-01-14T14:12:37Z

✅ Test workflow passed. All plugins loaded successfully.

github-actions · 2026-01-14T14:14:12Z

Publish workflow has completed with success.

Published container images:
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback:pr_1790__0.12.0
- ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/backstage-community-plugin-entity-feedback-backend:pr_1790__0.14.0

Backstage Compatibility Check

✅ All workspaces are compatible with the target Backstage version (1.45.3).

No action required.

github-actions · 2026-01-14T14:18:13Z

✅ Test workflow passed. All plugins loaded successfully.

davidfestal · 2026-01-14T17:03:21Z

@durandom is this PR expected to be review and merged, or only a test of new AI-based PR creation process ?
If expected to be merged, I guess it is then a duplicate of the automatically-created PR #1195

durandom · 2026-01-15T08:06:43Z

Hi David,

This PR was created through an AI-assisted workflow pilot, but based on a real request (RHDHPLAN-272 - 1.9 plugin candidates).

Good catch on #1195! We discovered a gap in our onboarding workflow — we checked if the plugin workspace already existed, but didn't check for open PRs. That's now logged as a workflow improvement.

Our PR is more complete than the auto-generated one:

✅ Metadata files (workspaces/entity-feedback/metadata/)
✅ Plugin entity (catalog-entities/extensions/plugins/entity-feedback.yaml)
✅ --embed-package fix for notifications dependency
✅ Tests passing
✅ Local verification done

Happy to mark #1195 as superseded by this one, or we can close ours and port the additions to #1195 — whichever you prefer.

nickboldt · 2026-01-15T13:19:27Z

That's now logged as a workflow improvement.

To avoid noise, this should be logged as a blocker so we don't churn out PRs that will just get closed as dupes.

mark #1195 as superseded by this one, or we can close ours and port the additions to #1195 — whichever you prefer.

Which one is more correct?

Per slack chat I've added the hold flag so we don't merge this until AFTER the release-1.9 branch exists.

durandom · 2026-01-15T13:22:43Z

this will supersede #1195

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durandom added 3 commits January 14, 2026 15:08

Add entity-feedback plugin metadata

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- Package metadata for frontend and backend plugins - Plugin entity for Extensions Catalog - Added to all.yaml for catalog discovery

Fix: embed notifications-node dependency

2ae1365

The backend plugin requires @backstage/plugin-notifications-node which needs to be bundled into the dynamic plugin.

durandom force-pushed the add-entity-feedback-workspace branch from 3338322 to 2ae1365 Compare January 14, 2026 14:08

github-actions bot added the workspace-addition PR adds a new workspace label Jan 15, 2026

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