On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Karim-Pierre Maalej wrote:
I would say that a newcomer shouldn't look at platform. He should look at XE, XEM, Watch.
Okay, let's say someone told you about xwiki to build your website, giving you some examples like Curriki. You are interested and want to see if it can fits your needs. You'll want to know how you can install the product and adapt it to your needs, that may be wide.
So e.g. I want to know how to make a site like Curriki. How should I proceed? And first, in which section should I have a look? There's something missing here, maybe just a few words that say to me 'hey guy, if you want to build a website upon XWiki, it's that way!'
The Curriki product doesn't exist yet. Right now Curriki is a specific project and not a general purpose product.
Or more basically, let's say that you have installed a distribution of XWiki Entreprise for you to test and let's even suppose that you have clearly understood the difference between 'XWiki' and 'XWiki Enterprise' (which is not always very clear for a newcomer if he heard about XWiki as a something like 'MediaWiki' power 2).
Now you just want to build a new skin from scratch. Hmm... where should you have a look into? XWiki Entreprise or XWiki Platform?
Both! Try it, you'll find how to do this by navigating either from XE or from the Platform (or from other products for that matter).
If you feel logical, providing you've downloaded and you're using XWiki Entreprise, you'll have a look into the documentation for XWiki Entreprise. Well... wrong guess, it's in XWiki Platform.
No, it's there in XE... :) Here's the link: http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Features
This is the goal of the home page. What's missing do you think?
Something like a diagram (or a table, at least), showing in a glance which functionality is part of which product.
Yes good idea. We almost have this already. If you check the code zone, for example the applications, it tells with which product each is bundled with. As for the platform features they're are available in all products since it's the platform. I'll work on adding a consolidated page for this in the future. Thanks -Vincent