[Request]: UX: Replace `--disable-progress-updates` with `--progress mode`.

[jglogan]

Feature or enhancement request details

Modes are:

• none: no progress output, replaces the --disable-progress-updates flag
• ansi: progress output using ANSI escape codes to produce clean, compact progress bar output

This makes it possible to have follow-on option values such as:

• plain: plain text output, one line per progress step with no ANSI codes
• color: allows differentiation between ANSI output with just cursor control, and color-coded output

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[karenheckel]

@jglogan @dkovba Hello! We are students at UT Austin working on issues for our virtualization class. If no one has taken this, we would love to work on it. Thank you!

[saehejkang]

@karenheckel I noticed you are going through all the issues and commenting on them asking which is a good one to work on. I was going to come back to this one and wrap it up, but y'all can go ahead and work on this one! Looks like the two option values below need to be added. I will be active on this issue and help out as much as I can, if any questions arise.

plain: plain text output, one line per progress step with no ANSI codes
color: allows differentiation between ANSI output with just cursor control, and color-coded output

Could you also do me a favor and take a look at #855? I want to start collecting questions and things that new contributors have, so that it is easier for new developers to get up to speed on the codebase. Anything you have questions on (that is not already noted in ANY of the docs), just post them there.

Hook Em 🤘🏽

[karenheckel]

@saehejkang Great thank you! We're looking for 3 issues to contribute to for our class, so this is a great issue to start with. We'll let you know if we have any questions!

Yes, we can definitely post any questions that come up to that discussion! Thanks again!

[katiewasnothere]

@karenheckel Definitely feel free to pick up this issue! Thanks for checking in! Feel free to tag me for questions as well.

[PhantomInTheWire]

hey @saehejkang @katiewasnothere @jglogan i have opened to a pr to push this forward could you please take a look? thanks.

[nrthakur]

Hi @jglogan If no progress has been made on this, I'd love to pick it up