Re: [xwiki-devs] [Ideas/Proposal] Thoughts on the Wiki Import feature for GSOC

Hi Vincent, Here is my shallow proposal after doing some research on Confluence and Mediawiki. http://gsoc.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Import+Export+other+wikis/ I have already added few of your ideas in mine. Can i have some feedback.

Yeah am comfortable with the plan.Will start with the preparation of plan with milestones. Thanks and Best regards, Arun Reddy. On 5/22/09, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > Hi (Arun), > > I've thought a bit and here are some ideas: > > 1) Have a xwiki-importer module in platform/core/ > > Note that later on we could move the XAR importer as a submodule in > there too. > > This module will contain all the java code to perform input parsing + > import into wiki pages. > > 2) Have a xwiki-importer application in platform/applications/ > > This application would provide an "Import" icon in the Admin page. > When you click on that icon you would get to a second page with > several icons: > - Import Application (that's the current XAR import) > - Import from Confluence > - Import from Mediawiki > ... > > 3) Each "Import from ..." will have its own UI since the import > methods differ from wiki to wiki > > Arun, you need to look at all wikis for which we want to offer an > importer for (MediaWiki and Confluence to start with) and see what > options they offer: > - could be an export in the form of XML files in a zip > - could be accessing them through a REST/XMLRPC/other api online > > For a first version I think we should offer only 1 way of importing > and I'd suggest the zip containing XML if that's supported by the > wiki. > > 4) (this is a second step) Write Link parsers for the different wiki > syntaxes (since right now we only have XWiki 2.0 link parser). We'll > need 1 for mediawiki and 1 for confluence. > > 5) (this is a third step) Deal with macros. For example confluence > offers lots of macros which when imported will not work. > > We can convert them to XWiki macros that do something similar. We'll > need to identify simple macros that we don't have to add them. Of > course for macros that we don't have, they wouldn't be converted. > > 6) We need a Roadmap/planning > > * Do this in the sandbox for now > * Prepare a planning with milestones. > * Each milestone shouldn't be longer than 2 weeks. > * Make sure you don't slip dates > * Always have something that work. This means that after the first > milestone you *MUST* have something that can be demonstrated and that > is working (even if it's not doing much) > * Corollary: always start by doing the integration work first so that > you can have a working chain. > > More specifically, after your first milestone, I should be able to > drop the xwiki-import JAR in my xwiki's WEB-INF/lib + import the > xwiki- > import XAR and be able to click on "Import from Mediawiki" and be > able > to have the pages imported in xwiki 2.0 syntax (no options for the > first version). The first milestone could be 3 weeks since you need > to > set up the plumbery. > > Let me know what you think. > > All: let us know also what you think about this. > Guillaume: Let us know if you're ok with the UI ideas above. > > Thanks > -Vincent