[xwiki-devs] FW: New Admin Design direction

Hi, Yes, I've read that document a hundred times but the implementation proposal changed about that much too :P So, yes, Vincent is right about the fact that we should follow the interface extension direction for the new applications that we are going to make but, so far, since we don't have the interface extensions I am a little bit puzzled about the whole thing. What I don't know how to do is: 1. In what way an application should contribute admin pages to the administration application? For this we should have at least some classes & objects generically defined for each application and the administration one to read these objects and to be able to know what to include (even hardcoded) in the administration menu, as Vincent says. And isn't this what interface extension application is suppose to do? Please correct me if I am wrong or I did not understand the request. For example, let's say we have the Blog application. For now we have global administration and space administration. We have the rights, the panels and the presentation preferences included in the space administration for Blog space (this is something fixed). Where should go the other things that the Blog administration application wants to include in the administration menu? The things that Vincent wants to be hardcoded for now. In the space administration page? In another administration page...? And how should I read these things? From what kind of objects or documents or whatever else may be used? Until now, after discussing with Jv, Thomas and Sergiu, the idea I made about the administration application is that it is a set of wiki pages used to administrate a wiki at global and space level (pretty much the same kind of application like Panels). But its implementation seems to change the more we discuss about it (which is a good thing of course) but now I am really confused. Can you help me understand WHAT exactly should I implement for now? Thanks, Evelina -----Original Message----- From: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:06 PM To: XWiki Developers Subject: [xwiki-devs] New Admin Design direction Hi, Some comments I've discussed with JV about implementing http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministration I believe we should design it in the following manner: * The Admin page is a generic empty shell * An XWiki instance is made of applications (admin pages like users/ groups/configs are part of the admin application too). Examples: Blog, Calendar, Panels, etc * Each application should be able to contribute admin pages to configure/administrate itself. These pages should automatically appear in the left menu on the new admin page. Note that this will require interface extensions so right now we would hardcode them in the menu. * What it means is that the admin page should link to the admin pages located in the applications providing them. I know we're missing the interface extensions to make this work but I'd like that our design for the new admin page works towards this goal in mind. WDYT? Note: This email was prompted by Evelina asking if it was ok to attach XARs to be imported in the XWiki.XWikiPeferences page. IMO it's not a good thing to do. The XARs should be attached in the ImportExport application pages (as it's done now). Now I have no idea how easy or hard this is to implement since I haven't dived in the implementation. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs