16 Apr
2012
16 Apr
'12
2:23 p.m.
Hi Jerome,
On Apr 16, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I'm very much in favor of an overhaul of all spaces names for platform
(and ideally also for XE and XEM too).
I'm not going to vote on the rule you propose just yet ; but I have a
couple of (open) questions :
* Quid of space pretty names (space titles) ? - I personally firmly
think we need them
Yep, this is orthogonal to this proposal.
* Can documents exists outside spaces ? (I don't
know if the model
module takes this in consideration or not)
No
* How do we fix the doc.name vs. doc.title problem in
terms of user
experience? (pointers : looking at what Wordpress does for example,
and introduce the notion of permalink) - this applies to space name
vs. space title as well should we decide to have pretty space titles.
This is also orthogonal to this proposal too.
BTW Last week I've thrown together a little
module[1] for my own use,
that for a "business" XClass offers a customizable page creation UI
with flexible rules for how to generate the page name. I'll try to
spend some times describing in more details the use cases behind this
; I think this can be interesting as input for the more general
discussion of how we want to structure our UI modules in the future,
and what good practices we want to promote for tiers
extensions/applications.
Sounds interesting. Any screenshot to show? :)
I think all your questions/ideas are good but they are independent of this proposal IMO.
They can be added on top.
Thanks
-Vincent
Just food for though...
Jerome
[1] https://github.com/jvelo/xwiki-platform-pagecreation
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Now that we have support for Hidden documents, I'd like to propose a general rule
where to put XAR pages in platform modules.
>
> The rule I'm proposing is:
> * Each top level module in xwiki-platform-core/ that has a UI submodule should put
its pages in a single space, generally named after the module but with a pretty name
>
> Examples:
> * xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes --> AppWithinMinutes (could also have been
"App Within Minutes") (currently using: "AppWithinMinutes")
> * xwiki-platform-index --> Index (currently using: "Main" and
"XWiki")
> * xwiki-platform-ircbot --> IRC (or "IRC Bot" or "IRCBot")
(currently using: "IRC")
> * xwiki-platform-livetable --> Livetable (currently using: "XWiki")
> * xwiki-platform-user --> User (currently using: "XWiki")
> etc
>
> What's important is the rule: one module == one dedicated space
>
> WDYT?
>
> Note 1: This means that we the "Main" space will not be really needed
anymore but I think we should keep it as the space name for the XE application for now (or
we could introduce an application for it in xwiki-platform-core). It could simply contain
the current Main.WebHome.
> Note 2: When we add support for nested spaces, the rule would mean but we would be be
able to better organize content in nested spaces.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent