[xwiki-users] [Proposal] A system to manually manage the state of the wiki page (version, redactor, comment, validation, ...)

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Christophe,

Does your email means you're proposing to implement this? (I'm  
referring to the "Proposal" in the subject line)

Also you did not describe how to implement what you suggest. Could  
you be more specific?

If I understand your email, you're suggesting to decouple document  
state from document storage. For example, document's content could  
still be managed using XWikiHibernateStorage but document's states  
could be managed by, say some custom tool. Hmm.... I'm not entirely  
convinced. I think it'll raise several issues, one of which is  
distributed transactions. Another one is performances.

To implement your use case you could also intercept document save  
using the XWiki Notification Service and save your own document state  
as you want it.

Not sure exactly what you're looking for with your email...

Thanks
-Vincent

On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Christophe Koehl wrote:

> Hello the xwiki community,
>
> We use Xwiki for a couple of years now as a tool for managing our IT
> projects.
> During the redaction of the main project documents, we have a strong
> need of versionning management - not the xwiki system, but our own  
> one.
> To be clear, when a wiki page is written some information can be
> included in it :
>    * Document version
>    * Name of the redactor
>    * Date of the modification
>    * Name of validator
>    * Comment
>
> In fact, the xwiki system contains almost all the components, but  
> those
> information are updated each time a modification is being done, even
> when the document is a draft and has not be validated.
> For example, the xwiki version number is automatically incremented
> whereas the real document version number is still the same.
>
> So it can very very useful to integrate a system which can be able to
> manage manually the different state of the document.
>
>    Regards
>
>    Christophe Koehl
>
> From - Mon
> .org/wws