Hi again, Done more coding (in front of the TV watching the Tennis David cup : France vs Croatia ;))... I’ve now completely rewritten the 8.3M1 release notes using the release notes app: https://www.evernote.com/l/AHc8Tp-XK6VMkY8ZL0YnNuEg7XLUavZliKM FTR changes I’ve brought: * In the end, "When the target audience is “developer” the screenshot is replaced by an example.” was not a good idea and I’ve dropped it. * For the developers section, I’ve used a single column view. FTR here’s the wiki syntax for the New and Networthy part: " = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 8.2) = [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 8.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13629]]. == For Users == {{news columns="3" audience="user"/}} == For Admins == {{news columns="3" audience="administrator"/}} == For Developers == {{news columns="1" audience="developer"/}} “ I’m quite happy about the result. Do you like it too? Next step: Provide a UI for adding a release notes news (right now I’ve used the object editor to write the RN for 8.3M1). Thanks -Vincent
On 17 Sep 2016, at 12:27, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
I’ve done a quick POC locally, if you’re curious:
* 3 columns view (using {{news columns=“3”/}}: https://www.evernote.com/l/AHcrwTDtWzBL7JaGLsTvj3NcP95dEYwraOc
* 2 columns view (using {{news columns=“2"/}}: https://www.evernote.com/l/AHche7VWkv1KgLZPkWqbVv_ZGn728y-tAzw
* Livetable view of data: https://www.evernote.com/l/AHcItOb57M9AMIaU6HXBTO04c3o91dVKck4
Note1: I’ve added a title xproperty too. Note2: I’ve tweaked a bit the CSS of the galley macro but I could commit this (see http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Gallery+Macro?viewer=co...). I’ll also need to talk to marius about the 128px padding for left/right arrows (which I’ve reduced to 45px for the screenshots above).
Thanks -Vincent
On 16 Sep 2016, at 18:18, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’m planning to write a Release Notes Application for xwiki.org. I’d like to do something relatively simple in order to have a first working version.
Rationale ========
* Have nicer looking release notes by defining a structure and a common L&F * For users, be able to see all the release notes item from a given version to another version and by category
Idea ====
Specifically for the “New and Networthy" section have: - A visual that looks like this: https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/features/ - 2 columns layout - For each item a screenshot and a summary text - (optional) Have a “Learn more” button that goes to the item and provides more info (and possibly more screenshots if need be)
XProperties: - Version (in which the item has been added). Static list - Category (Help, Color Themes, Solr Search, AWM, etc). Static list - Main screenshot - Summary text - Additional content - Target audience (User, Admin, Developer). Static list
Notes: - If no “main screenshot” is provided then the generated report will put the item in a Miscellaneous section
For now I don’t want to handle other metadata for the releases notes, i.e. translations, upgrades, backward compat, tested browsers, etc). Precisely, I’m planning to write a “New and Networthy” application ATM, not a full “Release notes app”.
The way it could be used is through a {{news/}} macro, e.g.: {{news from=“6.4” to=“8.2” [categories=“help,awm,...”] [targetAudience=“user,admin”] /}}.
Usage ======
- There would be a page in the wiki to see the livetable corresponding to all the release notes news (the xproperties above) - Above this Livetable I imagine a form with several fields: — From version, — To Version — Category (if not empty generate the report only for that category) — Target (user, admin, dev). (if not empty only generate the report for that target audience) — + a “Generate” button to generate a dynamic "News and Networthy” report - We would also use Tags for each news to categorize it further, e.g. “usability”, “performance”, and the LT would display the tag cloud. This will allow for example to see all items between such version and such version that are related to, say, performance - We would still write a Release Notes page for each version but on that page, we would use the {{news/}} macro (with from = to = the version corresponding to that RN). On that page we would add all the other parts that are not in the app yet, i.e. translations, upgrades, backward compat, etc - When an XWiki developers codes a new feature or improvement or new API will use the app to add it.
Future ======
* Add a different release notes app to include the other metadata * We could almost imagine using this “New and networthy” app to provide reference documentation for our features… :) (along with automatic “since”). That’s probably too science-fiction and I’m sure there are lots of gotchas but just mentioning it here to make us dream a bit...
I’m starting to work on the POC. Let me know what you think.
Thanks -Vincent