Re: [xwiki-devs] [UserStory] Wiki Archetypes

Hi, Devs Recently one idea have crossed my mind. Thought that it might be interesting to XWiki community. It would be nice to implement something like Maven Archetypes, just for Wikis. That is a "XWiki Archetype Plug-in". Imagine a Wiki for software development project (SDP). Its structure might be more or less the same for most of the project. You would have * Place for storing development environment description and set-up * There should also be a place for developers to store some hints, code snippets etc. * A place for "User stories" and communications with customers * Meetings tracking place (where you keep meeting minutes, IRC logs) * List of deliveries and release notes. All of the above is something a modern quality-managed project cannot survive without. And with XWiki it can be gathered into a set of templates in a single *.xar archive like a Maven Archetype. At some level it can be done even with existing tools the XWiki provides. However it can be extended even more: * Archetypes can contain information about plug-ins and extensions they depend on. E.g. there may be a separate meeting minutes application which needs to be installed for our SDP Archetype example. * Parametrized archetypes (e.g. provide project name for SDP Archetype) * Special UI designed to import an archetype (e.g. choose which parts (pages and plug-ins) of the archetype you would want in your Wiki) * Special UI designed to search Wiki Archetype repository * Special UI for extracting an Archetype from existing Wiki Does it sound as a viable user-story? What kinds of other Archetypes you can think of? Does it worth the effort, to be able to quickly start-up your wikis and have them conform to the same style?

Regards, Roman