11 Jun
2018
11 Jun
'18
10:56 a.m.
Hi Vincent
2018-06-08 11:45 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
Hi devs,
Now that Notifications is providing an equivalent feature (and supposedly
much faster, we still need some measurements on that!), we need to think
about decommissioning the AS and Watchlist features.
Decommissioning means moving them to xwiki-attic IMO.
So the questions:
* Are there any features still missing to replace the AS? For example the
AS had the ability to display a RSS feed and other parameters, see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Activity%20Macro#
HParametersdefinition. Are all of these having equivalents or other ways
of doing them?
* We have an RSS view, but it's not available from the macro. So it need to
be added if we want to keep it.
* We don't have a "tag" filter. Need to be added.
* Personal note and especially for Caty: I don’t like too much the big
icons that we have ATM. For example http://extensions.xwiki.org/
xwiki/bin/view/Extension/User%20Profile%20Application#
HSeetheNetworkActivity. I don’t think the replacement of the main AS with
the notifications macro will look very nice with these icons. I already
stated that I thought the user-focused view was much nicer visually but I
was one of the few to think so from what I remember ;) Still even if we
keep the icons, I think there’s some work to make the UI more appealling
visually. WDYT?
* When can we replace AS with notifications macro? I’d suggest to do that
for 10.6-RC1. WDYT? AFAIK there are 2 places: user profiles + Dashboard
home page.
If we don't care about the 2 remaining items I've mentioned above, we could
do it for 10.6RC1.
* Once the previous item is done, can we remove AS + watchlist from XS
easily now? What does it entail, just moving xwiki-platform-watchlist and
xwiki-platform-activitystream. Actually I think we need to first move the
message stream sending UI to another place. I’d propose inside the alert
menu as a UIX when message stream is enabled (that would be fast and simple
to do and we could tune the location later, it doesn’t matter much since
it’s off by default anyway). Could we do this in XWiki 10.6RC1?
We can only get rid of Activity Stream's UI. Because the storage is still
implemented by Activity Stream's API (as the unique implementation of
xwiki-platform-eventstream).
* Anything else I’ve forgotten?
So the plan seems to be, in this order:
1) Replace AS with notifications macro.
2) Move Message Stream sending UI outside of AS
I'm not sure I understand. The Message Sender Macro is defined in
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…
so I don't think we need to move something out of AS.
3) Move xwiki-platform-watchlist and
xwiki-platform-activitystream to
xwiki-attic and update their docs on e.x.o to explain how to put them back
if needed
IMO we should wait for the next cycle to move the modules out.
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project