Can one of the admins verify this patch?

This is awesome and much needed, thanks for the PR @gwintzer.

A couple discussion points, /cc @tylersmalley :

• My ideal version of this would be to make optimization opt in for plugin installation. We get tons of bugs filed for Permission errors in packages after server optimizing #8818 and this would cut down on nearly all of them.
• Plugin installation validates kibana.yml due to the optimize task, there's been a few related bugs to setting kibana.yml before installation
• I'd like to see a separate script for optimization to be as clear as possible for the standalone task - it fits under bin/kibana and bin/kibana-plugin so instead of supporting both we can be explicit with bin/kibana-optimize.

usage:

bin/kibana-plugin install foo --optimize
bin/kibana-optimize

Thoughts?

@jbudz, I agree with all of your points but changing the default to not optimize during plugin installation might be considered a breaking change. I would be for backporting this to 6.0, and in 7 flipping the defaults. Though, hopefully then we will have removed the optimize process altogether.

Here's the backport to 6.1, I have ones for 6.0 and 5.6 if anyone else needs them https://gist.github.com/FireBurn/2ecaaff4c40a6dd9bb865f732a9754a7

Any idea when you're gonna merge this?

I hope this feature will release soon.

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-01-18T04:34:36Z","tags":["info","optimize"],"pid":1,"message":"Optimization of bundles for kibana, timelion and status_page complete in **466.53 seconds**"}

+1 to getting this merged sometime soonish

+1, this is a pain in the arse and results in long builds for us!

+1 I do confirm the pain

👍 , we be a great feature for us! Then we would be able to remove some nasty workaround hacks...

Since this is a community submitted pull request, a Jenkins build has not been kicked off automatically. Can an Elastic organization member please verify the contents of this patch and then kick off a build manually?

Closing since we've implemented this over in #16302