Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Hi,
I would like to start a vote to move the ratings and collections
plugins out of the sandbox, as a first step to make them available in
the default XE bundle.
We now have some clients that are using these plugins in production,
so it is time to make them real plugins.
Some history about the ratings and collections plugins.
RATINGS:
This plugin allows to record ratings about any item, an particular
documents. It stores ratings in separate spaces and records the
calculated average rating in the document itself.
It includes java and groovy hooks to write custom rating calculation.
This can be usefull to not calculate a single average but to include
the "rating" of the users in the calculation.
A skin extension allows to include the ratings selection mecanism in
the UI (it's a separate module).
As a second step the Ratings plugin and application can be bundled in
standard XWiki.
I am +1 to move ratings under platform/plugins/ +
platform/applications/ and work toward a 1.0 release (what's probably
missing for this is documentation).
As of making it part of XE, I think this need work on reviewing and
probably refactoring both the plugin and application.
+0 for moving the collection plugin (don't really know this one).
Jerome.
COLLECTION:
The collection plugin allows to manipulate collections of XWiki
documents. The plugin is the basis for the MultiPage Export feature
allowing to make a PDF or a XAR of multiple pages.
The collection plugin also includes a special activity stream
allowing to record changes of a document and all it's childs. The
changes are recorded only for documents that match a specific class
set in xwiki.cfg.
As a second step an application can be published for MultiPage Export
on
code.xwiki.org . Some changes are still necessary for that to not
depend on skin modifications for this to work so it will be done later.
Here is my +1 for both.
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