On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Hello,
I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls (
http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding /
templates (
http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ).
Could you please check the mail at
http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do
you think?
Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the
needed changes in web.xml.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Am I really the only one finding the idea useful?
No, it is a great idea, and I've tried to find time to write a
Default servlet. The ones from Tomcat
and Jetty seemed to have too many dependencies on the rest of the
container, so they were not a good
place to start. If you think that the one from myfaces is easy to
"steal", as you said in your
email, then please go ahead and make it ready for XWiki.
As for hiding templates, I think that a better way would be to make
the location of the templates
directory customizable, and be able to put it in WEB-INF/templates
altogether (not just a macros file).
Someone still has to do a complete review of the mail patch, I only
had time for a quick review.
Thank you for your interest in XWiki, sorry for not being able to
provide quicker feedback, and I
hope you will continue to collaborate with us.
Yes, I'd also like to say that I haven't had much time in answering
community emails lately since I've been working on the new rendering
mechanism amongst other things, and I'm sorry about that. We need the
full community's help. Other committers are quite busy too. What we
really need are new committers and we're open to accept them (see
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing
and
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Committership).
If you were interested the first step is for us to review your mail
patch, provide comments if need be, you submit a new patch (if need
be) and we apply it. Then you work on other things and submit other
patches. Once you reach a level of comfort with xwiki's dev process
and your patches can be easily applied with no change then it will be
a trigger signal showing that you're getting ready to become a
committer. You'd also need to show interest for helping others and
caring about xwiki at large and not just about your needs. At that
stage we would propose you to become a committer and send a vote.
We're not there yet but I wanted to highlight the process since I see
you have the will the contribute to the xwiki platform.
Thanks Lilianne,
-Vincent