Hi Guillaume,
On 11 Jun 2018, at 10:56, Guillaume Delhumeau
<guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi Vincent
2018-06-08 11:45 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
Hi devs,
Now that Notifications is providing an equivalent feature (and supposedly
much faster, we still need some measurements on that!), we need to think
about decommissioning the AS and Watchlist features.
Decommissioning means moving them to xwiki-attic IMO.
So the questions:
* Are there any features still missing to replace the AS? For example the
AS had the ability to display a RSS feed and other parameters, see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Activity%20Macro#
HParametersdefinition. Are all of these having equivalents or other ways
of doing them?
* We have an RSS view, but it's not available from the macro. So it need to
be added if we want to keep it.
I don’t think it’s that useful to have the RSS feed have a UI in the macro. However, I
think it’s useful to be able to have a RSS feed for a specific configuration of the
notifications (essentially this is what the macro does: configures the notifications to
work in a given way). AFAIU the only RSS feed we have ATM is a fixed feed for the default
notifications in your user profile. So something more generic would be nice. I guess that
would mean a script service to return a RSS feed URL for some parameters passed (the same
params as those on the macro) + a generic RSS feed wiki page that accepts parameters.
WDYT?
Do we have a jira issue for this?
* We don't have a "tag" filter. Need to
be added.
Ok. Do we have a jira issue for it?
* Personal note and especially for Caty: I don’t like too much the big
icons that we have ATM. For example
http://extensions.xwiki.org/
xwiki/bin/view/Extension/User%20Profile%20Application#
HSeetheNetworkActivity. I don’t think the replacement of the main AS with
the notifications macro will look very nice with these icons. I already
stated that I thought the user-focused view was much nicer visually but I
was one of the few to think so from what I remember ;) Still even if we
keep the icons, I think there’s some work to make the UI more appealling
visually. WDYT?
* When can we replace AS with notifications macro? I’d suggest to do that
for 10.6-RC1. WDYT? AFAIK there are 2 places: user profiles + Dashboard
home page.
If we don't care about the 2 remaining items I've mentioned above, we could
do it for 10.6RC1.
* Once the previous item is done, can we remove AS + watchlist from XS
easily now? What does it entail, just moving xwiki-platform-watchlist and
xwiki-platform-activitystream. Actually I think we need to first move the
message stream sending UI to another place. I’d propose inside the alert
menu as a UIX when message stream is enabled (that would be fast and simple
to do and we could tune the location later, it doesn’t matter much since
it’s off by default anyway). Could we do this in XWiki 10.6RC1?
We can only get rid of Activity Stream's UI. Because the storage is still
implemented by Activity Stream's API (as the unique implementation of
xwiki-platform-eventstream).
So another item in the todo list then:
* Move the implementation to xwiki-platform-eventstream
Do we have a jira for this?
* Anything else I’ve forgotten?
So the plan seems to be, in this order:
1) Replace AS with notifications macro.
2) Move Message Stream sending UI outside of AS
I'm not sure I understand. The Message Sender Macro is defined in
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…
so I don't think we need to move something out of AS.
Ok my bad then, I thought the UI part was implemented inside the AS UI. I think this was
refactored a long time ago (it was in the AS UI initially) and I forgot about it.
3) Move xwiki-platform-watchlist and
xwiki-platform-activitystream to
xwiki-attic and update their docs on e.x.o to explain how to put them back
if needed
IMO we should wait for the next cycle to move the modules out.
I don’t think we need to wait if they can be installed easily, but sure. Note that moving
out or not bundling by default is the same thing for me since it’ll be the same for
users.
Anyway first, there are a few issues we need to implement and fix.
At this stage I’d like to make sure we have all the jira issues created and to agree on
them and have a plan for fixing them.
Thanks
-Vincent
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