[xwiki-devs] [Idea] Deprecate terminal pages

Hi Devs, after trying XE 7.4 snapshot some more, I kept asking myself what was the point of even allowing terminal pages to exists. I couldn't see a good reason why any given page would *need* to be terminal, whereas it poses some issues: - There is no visual distinction between terminal pages and nested pages in the interface (besides "WebHome" in the URL, which would be cleaner to remove) - We're planning to make it possible to reference a nested page in wiki syntax without having to write "WebHome" in it - When creating a new page from a terminal page, you're creating a sibling instead of a child page, which breaks the user expectation (and the breadcrumb) - For AWM applications, data/content pages are created as terminal pages, which makes it impossible to add further content underneath them in the future (say, sub-tasks that would go as child pages of tasks) - To my knowledge, there is no easy way to transform a terminal page into a nested page should the need arise later on - However, I don't see any problem from a page being a nested page instead of being a terminal page In summary: why bother with terminal pages at all? I understand they're an artefact from our pre-nested-spaces model, but do they really make sense now? We could let existing terminal pages live on, but not remove the ability to create new ones even for admins. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks, Guillaume