11 May
2010
11 May
'10
12:34 a.m.
In http://www.mail-archive.com/devs@xwiki.org/msg14717.html
Ludovic said "We need to be as compatible as possible with how the
current invitation manager stores it's configuration and state
(current invitation and requests)"
I think this concept is worthy of it's own discussion thread.
When I approached this project, I hadn't considered a need for an
upgrade path from the Invitation Manager (I assume that's what this
is for.) The application as it stands is quite dependent on a
different configuration/storage model and changing will take a long
time.
Do we really want to use the same configuration/storage as the
Invitation Manager?
* The Invitation Manager plug-in uses configuration parameters
defined in the now deprecated xwiki.cfg file while Invitation
Application uses a custom configuration class through the
XWiki.ConfigurableClass system.
* Invitation Manager and Invitation Application both store message
status as a number, Invitation Application uses additional codes for
"sending failed", "reported as spam", and "reported and
investigated".
* Invitation Manager has an additional field "space" which will make
no sense without Space Manager plug-in in the invitation application
setup and will have to be replaced by "groups".
* To copy Invitation Manager setup will block further feature
addition such as invitations which expire after a given amount of
time (for mailing lists).
* Invitation Manager templates are coded in a format similar to
XWiki/1.0 syntax (but not exactly the same) Invitation Application
templates are (currently) to be coded in XWiki/2.0 syntax.
Options:
We could continue the Invitation Application as is and if an upgrade
path is needed, add a script for upgrading legacy data later on.
Drop the current work and get the Invitation Manager plugin to build
(It would be a shame to dump so much work over one requirement.)
Rewrite the current work to be compatible with the old Invitation
Manager, accept using depricated configuration and sacrifice
features (this will take the most time.)
What are your thoughts?
Caleb