3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
8 a.m.
On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
Well I'm not sure. IMO the dashboard should be moved to a dashboard application and
that spaces macro could be moved to that dashboard application.
Recent Activity should be moved to an Activity application too and the activity macro
there too.
Basically I still believe strongly that we need to list all our default XE pages and
assign them an application. I had done that exercise one and created the jira components
in XE asa result. Maybe we should revisit this and do this mapping now?
Yes we need to define that too. We've been quite poor in term of wiki content
organization and as a result I feel that our default wiki content is a bit of a
disorganized mess. We should improve. Want to lead a proposal?
Agree, it's a good place and it should be renamed or merged with another app, all
depending if we find that there are macros that don't belong to any specific app.
See comment above about the dashboard and activity apps.
Let's continue this discussion.
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi Vincent, all,
See below
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
The reason is simple. Most people come to the wiki as a place where to find information
(not as contributors) and they'll see the list of spaces listed on the home page mixed
with spaces containing real content for that wiki. All I want is a separation between
"business content" and technical content. I'm fine if we have 2 space lists
on the home page, one for each type of content. But I really don't like to mix the two
kind of content.
On Nov 2, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Thibaut Camberlin wrote:
Then we should probably hide them from the WYSIWYG tooIbar too, I guess ;)
Seriously, the space could be blacklisted, but it should be discussed,
I'm not sure we want to have only admins seing it (personally I see
that space as being "documentation on macros existing in the wiki"
before being "a place to create new macros" - so not so technical in
the end). On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Jerome Velociter
<jerome(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
I don't quite agree. Standard users shouldn't see this space. it's something
technical and 99% of wiki users don't want/need to see it (and they won't even
understand it). So for me this space would need to be hidden from simple users (same as
for other tech spaces). Actually I've been thinking maybe we could
provide a Macros/ space
with XE. The home page would be a improved version of the current
XWiki.WikiMacros page (adding for example a ClassSheet for macros, a
form to create a new macro, some documentation, etc.)
WDYT?
This polishing would empower a standard user to use this XWiki advanced
feature. Maybe in some distant future we should have an
intermediary level
between "Normal users" and "Admins". BTW do users that chose to be
"Advanced Users" in their profile see the blacklisted spaces ?
yes.
Maybe
the intermediary level could be this one.
I don't think we need one ATM.
I'm not
sure what the proposal is about exactly.
Well it's not a proposal yet, rather an idea.
Some open questions: Would the macros stay where
they are currently located?
If you ask me some should be moved already (like {{spaces}} and
{{tags}}), since they are located in documents that already have
another purpose, and thus can not benefit from a potential
WikiMacroClassSheet (that for example could display the usage of the
macro and its parameters ; thus becoming a sort of self-contained
documentation for the held macro) Shouldn't
macros stay with their apps?
Yes they should.
Right now we don't even have a rule for where to put applications
documents (in their own space ? with a Code suffix ? in the XWiki
space ? somewhere else ?) I think the (not existing) UI at Macros.WebHome should
retrieve and
list documents from the entire wiki, not just the Macros space.
I agree
Same
as the scheduler (I changed that behavior just recently by the way - I
wanted my application scheduler jobs in my application space, not in
the Scheduler space - see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XASCH-56)
Yep seen that and I agree.
Does it mean a
new platform/application in svn?
There is already one : the "wikibridge" I think, with just one
document now (the name is not correct though, I agree) What macros go
there? When do we use wiki macros vs java macros (we haven't really decided on this I
think)?
I'm quite sure you will not agree, but I would say generic (i.e. not
tied to a particular application) wiki macros could go there. For
example {{spaces /}} or even {{activity /}} which goes beyond just the
dashboard app. Will java
macros also be listed on that home page (they should IMO)?
Yes they should. Maybe not under the exact same form, but they
definitely should be listed and documented here
Generally speaking I'm rather +1 (I'd like macros to stay in their apps though).
Cool. I'm +1 too and +1 to have the possibility for apps to bring
their own macros.
Jerome.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> PS: I didn't even know about
http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WikiMacros ;) I wonder why it's not already
using a livetable....
>
>> Here is my +1.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Arnaud bourree
<arnaud.bourree(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2010/11/2 Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>om>:
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:14, Caleb James DeLisle
>>>>> <calebdelisle(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
>>>>>> If you're contributing a macro then just log in and fgo to
this page.
>>>>>> http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/CreateMacro
>>>>>> It will put the macro in the Macros space and automatically add
it to
>>> the index.
>>>>>> Thanks for contributing to code.xwiki.org ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Thomas was talking about his how macro space, not where to
put
>>>>> contributed macro documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, thanks Thomas,
>>>> I decided to used Macros space.
>>>>
>>>> Arnaud.
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Caleb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/02/2010 04:57 AM, Arnaud bourree wrote:
>>>>>>> 2010/11/2 Caleb James DeLisle
<calebdelisle(a)lavabit.com>om>:
>>>>>>>> In your own wiki I think you want to put macros in a
space where you
>>> will be able to find them
>>>>>>>> easily. The XWiki space is full of important internals
and I wouldn't
>>> recommend putting any macros
>>>>>>>> in there.
>>>>>>>> "Macros" sounds like a fine choice.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I ask question more for macro we contribute to
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arnaud.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Caleb
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 11/02/2010 04:40 AM, Arnaud bourree wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Where is the best space to put macros?
>>>>>>>>> I check in some macro from code.xwiki.org, and find
that macros are
>>>>>>>>> commonly put in XWiki, Macros or Macro space.
>>>>>>>>> I've a preference for Macros as it self
explanatory and I think
>>> XWiki
>>>>>>>>> space more dedicated to XE pages.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Arnaud.