5 Nov
2011
5 Nov
'11
6:27 a.m.
On 11/04/2011 10:50 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
Hi,
*Short version* for voting:
*A*. Creation of a new wiki on xwiki.org farm that will hold development
process details about a specific feature. This wiki will deprecate
dev.xwiki.org:Design and incubator.myxwiki.org
+1.
*B*. Vote on naming alternatives for this new wiki:
design.xwiki.org
incubator.xwiki.org
Given that the wiki is supposed to track items through the
implementation phase as well, it should be called *incubator*.
*C*. UI on how a Proposal will be displayed in this
new wiki (example
AppWithinMinutes):
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgDesignWiki
The exclamation sign used for "in progress" isn't right; it looks like a
big warning, and not like something going well.
Is this how it's supposed to look in view mode, or just in edit mode?
I'm not sure the rating is useful. What does it mean? Should features
with a low rating be dropped, even if almost done?
For an initial implementation (and a NoScript usage) it looks good, but
in the future the UI could use some more advanced controls for adding
participants or JIRAs, or changing status.
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*Long version: *
Right now development process activities are located in multiple places:
- Analysis + Architecture: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/
- Analysis + User Interface:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/
- Other: http://xwiki.markmail.org/, http://jira.xwiki.org, chats, git
comments, etc.
This process can be hard to optimize and information is hard to track if
you are looking for specific information.
And the worst part of it is that is hard to automatize and lots of the
items need manual gathering or search.
*Part A. *
This mail is about combining http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/and
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/ work in a single place.
This has already been discussed several times before (
http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/kc32dufsf7nyyt6s and
http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/izj6aiyodwqia4vl) and the vote was
favorable in this direction.
The proposal was to create a new wiki called design.xwiki.org that will
contain the combined information and that will target developers.
The new wiki will be used to gather only proposal's development process
information: requirements, architecture, solutions alternatives, user
interface variants, planning, etc. for a specific feature/idea/improvement.
After the proposal is implemented it will be properly documented in the
right location for users (ex platform.xwiki.org).
It is acceptable to have CSS + JS code on this wiki in order to demonstrate
the functionality of the proposals, but we should not add
experimental/dangerous code (groovy scripts, jars, etc.). For this case it
is advisable to use a test machine, share your own instance or use the
contrib.xwiki.org repository for hosting.
The version upgrades will be handle by a community admin and the wiki
gardening by me.
The data from incubator.myxwiki.org and dev.xwiki.org:Design will be moved
gradually after the new wiki is created.
*Part B. *
You should state your opinion regarding which name is better for the new
wiki:
- design.xwiki.org
- incubator.xwiki.org
- we accept other proposals.
*Part C.*
I've made a proposal on how a proposal page would look like:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgDesignWiki
The proposal page will gather all the information related to it, making it
easier to track it's progress.
The entries will be separated depending on 4 categories: Analysis,
Architecture, User Interface and Implementation, each category having it's
own status, participants, jiras and timeframe.
Categories are not mandatory for all proposals, smaller proposals will have
just the related pages for certain areas.
Each proposal will store it's data in a dedicated space.
The implementation of the proposal will be handled by me.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Caty
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/