28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
6:53 p.m.
Hi Marius,
On Oct 26, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
Hi devs,
We need to decide on a technical name for the "Application Within
Minutes", i.e. the name of the platform module and the name of the
space that will hold the Application Within Minutes pages. For now I
committed my code in xwiki-platform-applicationWithinMinutes and I
used the "ApplicationWithinMinutes" space name but this is not
consistent with the way we named modules and spaces so far. Do you
have any suggestions?
We could use simply xwiki-platform-application, but it collides with
xwiki-platform-application-manager, and I don't think it's a good idea
to merge them. Is application manager still used? Is it going to be
replaced by the extension manager?
AFAIK the Application Manager was about defining an XClass for grouping pages together and
forming an application (with a version, description, etc).
The Extension Manager is independent of this, it's just about
installing/upgrading/removing extensions. An application is just one type of extension.
So Application Manager is still a valid notion and we need it. I can think of several use
cases:
- Ability to list all applications in the wiki
- Ability to tell a user that the page he's editing is part of an application and
ensure that he really wants to modify the application (which may require some merging
later on if he upgrades the application)
- Ability to remove an application
- Ability to list applications in the Application Panel we discussed a while ago (we
talked about mapping an Application to a space but in practice it doesn't have to be
limited to that)
- Ability to export an application from the wiki as an extension and publish it directly
on extensions.xwiki.org. I envision a page listing all applications with an export button
next to them.
AppWithinMinute would need to use the Application Manager IMO so that it puts all pages it
creates under an Application descriptor.
So yes while AppWithinMinutes and Application Manager could be grouped together
there's no reason not to keep them separate I think.
So ….. here are some ideas:
* xwiki-platform-application/ --> "Application" space, i.e. what defines an
application (this is the current Application Manager)
Then we have several possibilities for "AppWithinMinutes":
A) xwiki-platform-appwizard/ or xwiki-platform-application-wizard/-->
"Application Wizard" or Application space
B) xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes/ or xwiki-platform-application-within-minutes/-->
"Application Within Minutes" or Application space
C) xwiki-platform-appcreator/ or xwiki-platform-application-creator/ -->
"Application Creator" or Application space
D) xwiki-platform- appgenerator/ or xwiki-platform-application-generator -->
"Application Generator" or Application space
E) xwiki-platform-appfoundy/ or xwiki-platform-application-foundry -->
"Application Foundry" or Application space
BTW we should probably move to using spaces in Space names when they are compound names
(for example: "Annotation Code" rather than "AnnotationCode") since
they are human-readable names and not ids.
My preference goes to A) (the xwiki-platform-appwizard/ short form and "Application
Wizard" space name) since I think "Wizard" is the most well known
terminology for what "AppWithinMinutes" is.
Thanks
-Vincent