15 Mar
2008
15 Mar
'08
10:21 a.m.
Hi,
Currently, Watch can read any mail archive that is published through an
RSS so it can integrate content from mails provided that there is an
intermediary tool to do this 'translation'.
As for directly reading a mailbox and a mail archive, here's how we could
do it: apart from the feed reader plugin, we can have a mailreader plugin
to handle this job (and just the same, a lot of other reader plugins to
handle various types of content). It seems the right way of adding extra
content fetching powers to Watch so this is, in the end, not a Watch
specific job but more like a plugins one.
Having Watch read emails and giving the user the possibility of 'mailing'
content to Watch sounds like a good feature...
* An improved WYSIWYG editor with the following
features:
Thanks for these numerous suggestions. Richard, could you please add them
to
the
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorBasedOnGwtpage
so that we can take them into account while working on the editor's
new
version ? There's indeed a lot to do and to think about in terms of how to
display code & wiki syntax in the WYSIWYG editor.
- cut and paste from Word and web pages easily
i.e. without having
to go
back and adjust the formatting of what's been pasted onto an XWiki
page
<snip...>
> - if some wiki markup or code on a page could muckup the layout of
> the menu
> bars, etc can XWiki catch it and prevent it from doing that? I think how useful and useable the WYSIWYG editor
is effects the users
> experience and whether they'like and want to use XWiki.
Agreed. Which is why we're working on its specification in order to start
its implementation ASAP. User feedback during this process would be more
than welcome.
* A way of sending emails to XWiki so they can be
stored, archived and
referenced from a wiki page.
Yep, I remember some talking about this.
BTW I wonder if XWiki Watch could be used for this? We'd just need to
hook a mailbox + a POP module (or a mailing list archive reader) and
it should work just fine I think.
I'm not sure this is the most relevant way to do it. I'd rather see an
email
archive application that would work this way -> you send an email to a
given
address (say emailarchive(a)yourxwikiserver.com) .
The email is converted into a wiki page with an unique identifier based on
its subject, sender, date etc. The page metadata uses the email info to
fill
in the author & creation date. A check would probably be needed for
protected page (add the email only if the sender's email adresses matches
the one of an user who has rights on that page).
An index page lists all the email and allows filtering & searching them.
A macro allows to quote a mail in a page (could be done with
#includeTopic(
MailArchive.UniqueEmailIdentifier) actually)
Anyway more discussions would be needed to decide whether that application
would be worth making it into XE 1.4 (though I'd be glad to have it).
Here is some additional feedback I gathered :
- *Migration*
- Make the migration between 2 versions of XWiki even easier
than it is now (some bugs remain, making upgrades a chore on many
occasions).
- *Applications*
- Remove unfinished applications (such as the calendar & the
photo album) from the default distribution and put them as XARs on
XWiki.org instead
- *Translations*
- Replace all text in the default wiki with $msg.get() calls and
update the translation file to include EN & FR translations for
all of them.
- *Administration*
- Add a select box to the language selection field
- Add explanations next to each field to explain what they do
- Groups : add a button "Add a member to this group" on group
pages (below the list of group members)
- *Space Administration*
- Add the ability to customize the color of a space easily in
Toucan
- Add the possibility to use the Panel Wizard for a space
- *Autosuggest*
- Generalize the autosuggest feature to most input fields on the
wiki
I'll try to post some more once I've received it.
Guillaume
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