Re: [xwiki-devs] Blog Plugin Proposal

My try to deploy the Blog Plugin together with the updated Blog Application failed miserably today and my dislike of Velocity reach a new high. Because I see the value of the scripting nature of the Blog allowing users to customize their Blog to a quite large degree I don't want to ditch that but I have a lot of problems with Velocity and the way is plastering over issues. I rather fail fast than late with hardly a trail to understand what is going on. That said I still think that it might be a good idea to convert the scripted part of the Blog over to Groovy and keep the rest in the Blog Plugin. I don't have any experience with Groovy inside XWiki but for sure the documentation of Groovy outside is excellent compared to Velocity. I will use the next week to get up to speed and try to convert a piece of the Blog over to Groovy. Cheers - Andy