On 8 Jan 2014 at 20:20:12, Denis Gervalle ([email protected]) wrote: Hi devs, You propose a double S theme, my feeling would be to have a triple S one : Slick, Slim and Secure ! I know, I am a little bit biased on the security aspect since I have taken over the work of Thomas Delafosse, but I have the strong feeling that this aspect is closely related with the other two. Apart the security hole closing, it would be nice to work on the authentication module and a contextual authorization one, since the direct usage of the authorization module is not appropriate. If we want the modularity required to build a minimal core, this would be surely needed. Improving those feature will also improve performance. So, IMO, the triple S motto would fit even better for the 6.x cycle. WDYT ? Sounds good to me! :) Thanks -Vincent On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi devs,
We’re getting close to the end of the 5.x cycle with 5.4 and we need to find a new theme for 6.x.
At XWiki SAS we’ve had an internal meeting to brainstorm about what that theme could be and we’ve come up with the following idea:
Theme motto: “Slick and Slim” Explanations: * Performance improvements across the board: page load time, scalability, activity stream rewrite, memory usage rationalization * Introduce the flavor mechanism (as already discussed here) with the idea of removing the maximum of extensions from the base and be able to build a minimal, lightweight wiki + create a few flavors (as already discussed here too). * Slickiness achieved with things like new skin (see the proposal from Caty) + syntax highlighting + autocompletion + easier rights UI + etc…
In short we’ve realized that XWiki has grown along the years and it’s becoming a bit heavyweight in various aspects.
So the idea would be to focus on performances + ease of use to slim it down and ensure it’s kicking fast!
Of course, as usual, I’m sure there’ll be other things being worked on, but the idea would be to try our maximum to work within this theme.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent