21 Jan
2009
21 Jan
'09
7:04 p.m.
Hi Niels,
On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
I think there should be a administration configuration
panel with a
long
list of plugins or apps that can get included or excluded at the
click of a
button, with most excluded by default in XE
-- calendar on/off
-- photo on/off
-- watch on/off
-- office importer on/off
-- wiki manager on/off
-- space manager on/off
-- social networking feature on/off
etc.
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: I applaud the current attempt at rationalizing the product
offering by
reducuing the number of overlapping platforms. I personally think it
should
be further rationalized by having only one distribution -- XE --
This is exactly what we have started to do. XWS will be transformed
into applications/plugins for XE. Watch is already an XE application.
Etc.
but using a
feature like the aforementioned options panel to automatically
download and
deploy extra options at runtime, perhaps using existing maven
mechanisms to
assure compatibility between the installed version of XE core and
the add-on
apps and panels.
Yes this is exactly what we want to do, including the maven part
(although Jason Van Zyl told me we should not use pure maven pom.xml
for application descriptors and he pointed me to the plugin manager
they're using in Nexus:
http://svn.sonatype.org/spice/trunk/plugin-manager/).
Some doc here:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ApplicationManager
It's really cool to see where on the same wavelength :)
Thanks
-Vincent
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Dan Miron
<dan.miron(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
> IMO, we should remove only the PhotoAlbum, in case the Calendar
> doesn't
> have major bugs.
>> +1
>>
>> Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I suggest that we remove Calendar and PhotoAlbum applications
>>> from XE
>>> default wiki.
>>>
>>> Rationale:
>>>
>>> - PhotoAlbum is almost unusable with HQ photos (basically any pic
>>> taken with a digital camera) because of XE attachment management
>>> known
>>> bugs.
>>> - In their current state those applications doesn't meet XEs
>>> quality
>>> requirements: test coverage, usability, performance (PhotoAlbum).
>>> - Those 2 applications are orphan projects (no active project
>>> leaders), btw anyone whishing to care of them is welcome.
>>>
>>> Here's my +1.
>>>
>>> JV.