[xwiki-devs] Hidden documents

Hi Devs, Anyone of you will surely agree that the hidden document feature implemented in the store is very bad. IMO, it has never been fully implemented, probably in the hope of a better way to go, and it is so for too long. I think it is the time to take some decision about it, or I do not see the direction and I do not understand where we want to go ? I see 3 possibilities: 1) we remove it and found other way to solve the problem it solves, which are currently limited to the Blog, ColorThemes and Panels applications in a standard XE. 2) we keep it as it is, since it could be hard to implement higher in the current implementation, but then we need to fix the places where it cause issues. 3) we implement the feature using another method ? If we choose 1), early in 3.x release is the probably best moment for it, since it is a breakage in compatibility, I am -0 on this however. If we choose 2), we need to make it work properly by fixing places where we need to include all document, including hidden one. I have some old patch to the application-manager to export hidden document (ie: currently the blog application does not export properly), to the skinx plugin that does not apply 'always' skin extensions contained in hidden document, and there is probably other places. If we choose 3) now, what do you proposed to better implement it. I have read some comments that it was a UI level stuff implemented at the store level, but I do not see how it could be done better in the current implementation. Moreover, if we keep the feature, I think that it should be exposed somehow to the admins, allowing the creation of hidden document, but also listing them, deleting them properly, etc... Concerning the document provided with XE, I also wonder what could be the rules for hiding them or not ? Why not also hidding stock document in the XWiki space, just keeping users and some top level documents ? WDYT ? -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO