Default verbosity level makes ETA unclear

[astrojuanlu]

After workshop init dev --sdks hermes-agent --base ubuntu@26.04, I did

$ # 09:57
$ workshop launch
[Significant time spent on on `Run hook "setup-project" for "hermes-agent" SDK`]                                                                                                                                         
error: cannot perform the following tasks:                                                                                                                         
- Run hook "check-health" for "hermes-agent" SDK (SDK "hermes-agent" is not healthy after multiple checks)                                                         
"dev" launch aborted
$ # 10:03

During the whole process, it was unclear to me how many more steps were remaining, how much time was left, or if the tool was progressing at all.

But workshop does know at least the number of steps. If one runs with --verbose,

$ workshop launch --verbose
...
(6/16) Start "dev" workshop
...
(14/20) Setup "system" SDK profile
...
(17/20) Run hook "setup-project" for "hermes-agent" SDK
...

[dmitry-lyfar]

@astrojuanlu Workshop does not, unfortunately, know much of the ETA for the hooks, as they do not report it, or it is just not possible to assess, e.g. apt-get. Also, the number of steps can be dynamic and it depends on the SDKs, their connections and so on. Hence, the verbose mode makes the most of it, showing tasks counter and logs for the hooks with +x. Non-verbose mode is in line with snap ux atm.

[astrojuanlu]

Yeah I think time will always be tricky. Maybe showing (n/N) steps in the non-verbose mode would help. And indeed, snap has the same behavior.