Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki Watch publicly available on xwiki.org

Vincent Massol wrote: > On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Anca Paula Luca wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> As it has been already mentioned a couple of times, I strongly >> believe >> that XWiki Watch should be accessible in a sandbox on xwiki.org, >> for >> everyone to try it out and explore its features and for us to >> get an >> open real-life test of it. >> There is a document dedicated to the issues that might prevent >> this at >> http://watch.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Development/ >> XWatchOnXWikiOrg , >> please fill it in with any opinions you have! >> >> Here's my +1 for having an installation of XWatch publicly >> available >> on >> xwiki.org, WDYT? > Sure, we've already discussed it as I wanted to install it but > discovered it wasn't possible at the time. I wouldn't call it a > sandbox as I think it could be used for real and contain feeds > related > to xwiki and anything relevant. > > Here are some issues I can think of: > 1) Allow unregistered users to view and use the reader Since Watch is implemented using the XWiki documents & objects model, user rights follow the same model as all XWiki. Guest users use the rights we give them: for viewing / navigating through the reader, view right is enough, whereas any edit (add feed, tag/flag/trash/mark as read articles) requires edit rights. Unless there is a problem with giving edit rights to guests, I don't see exactly what is the issue with having guests use the reader.

> 2) Provide ability to undo changes done by users (the revert > feature > of all wikis). This is especially important in a public instance: > it > needs to be easier to revert an error than it is to create one! As mentioned earlier, all Watch data is stored in xwiki documents & objects, so reverting is as easy as it can be in any other instance of xwiki. Now, there is a problem with what we understand by reverting changes in a "feed reader". The first example that comes into my mind is when a user adds a feed source, say unwanted. Since the feed articles fetched from that are stored in xwiki documents, revert (wiki-way) would mean deleting the feed, but that would not trigger deleting all fetched articles. While from a feed reader point of view, reverting this change would probably mean deleting all fetched articles too. For this particular example this is not a problem because deleting a feed with all fetched articles is implemented in watch reader interface, but there is a general problem of actions and concepts interpretation in Watch: seeing it as a wiki vs. seeing it as a feed reader.