5 Nov
2011
5 Nov
'11
3:20 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> 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
+1 for design.xwiki.org
-0 for incubator.xwiki.org, "incubator" means implementations waiting
to be approved in some mainstream repository for me not design and
architecture. It would make more sense used as the name of a github
repository/organization associated to this wiki for example.
*C*. UI on how a Proposal will be displayed in this new wiki (example
AppWithinMinutes):
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgDesignWiki
Looks very nice. Same as Denis, it's very important that it's as easy
as possible to use and not a constraint in order to actually be used.
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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
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