Also, what is the connection between this and the forum that AppFactory is
supposed to have?

Thanks,
Samisa...


Samisa Abeysinghe

Vice President Delivery

WSO2 Inc.
http://wso2.com



On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Ruchira Wageesha <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sumedha,
>
> Was there any specific reason for this? AFAIK, you had an offline
> discussion with Sanjiva regarding this.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We discussed to have the Forum inline with the social implementation we
>> did for ES. We have defined a nice architecture to handle these events,
>> threaded posts, likes, bubble up functionality etc. Are we deviating from
>> that ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Nuwan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Isabelle Mauny <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nuwan,
>>>>
>>>> Couple points:
>>>> a) Will a publisher will be able to create one forum per API (at the
>>>> time of publishing) .. This should be optional BTW.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually this forum is a 'Developer Forum' for App Developers. So its
>>> only available on the API Store and hence the API publisher does not play
>>> any role in this.
>>>
>>> b) If a developer has not subscribed to an API, will they have access to
>>>> the forum ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, all forum topics are public unless a topic is associated to an API
>>> that has restricted visibility.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you please share a mockup of the forums viewer ?  how is it be
>>>> embedded in the API store/API publisher page ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Don't have a mockup right now, will try to come up with one.  Let me try
>>> to quickly visualize it for now :)
>>>
>>> You'll have a new Page on the API Store called 'Forum'. When you visit
>>> this page you see the list of Forum Topics. Clicking on a topic will allow
>>> you to see the discussion (replies). There'll be a button on this page
>>> saying 'Create new Discussion' which will create a new general forum topic.
>>> There'll also be a search option on this page.
>>>
>>> On the API detail page of the API Store, you'll have a button saying
>>> 'Start new discussion on this API'. When you click on it, you'll be able to
>>> create a new forum topic. In this case, the API and the forum topic will be
>>> associated and share a common permissions model for the sake of visibility.
>>> When on the API detail page, you'll also be given an option to 'View all
>>> discussions of this API'. This will list down all forum topics that are
>>> associated to the API.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> NuwanD.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>    __________________________________________________
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Isabelle Mauny *Vice-President, Product Management; WSO2, Inc.;
>>>> http://wso2.com/
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This is to discuss on the architecture of a Developer Forum on the API
>>>> Store. The basic requirement is for an application developer to be able to
>>>> initiate discussions on various topics and other developers to be able to
>>>> reply and carry on with the discussions. The replies will be on a flat
>>>> (single level) structure. The topic creator can also categorize (tag) a
>>>> topic choosing from a pre-defined set of categories.
>>>>
>>>> There will be two ways one can initiate a forum discussion
>>>>
>>>> 1. Create a generic forum topic by visiting the forums page and
>>>> clicking on a button.
>>>> 2. Browse to an API detail page and click on a button to start a new
>>>> forum topic. In this case the forum topic will be linked to the API and
>>>> hence one can filter out discussions for a given API. This requirement
>>>> brings out the need for the same visibility rules to be applied on the API
>>>> as well as to its corresponding forum discussions.
>>>>
>>>> The implementation will consist of a back-end and front-end (UI)
>>>> components. The back-end will contain the core business logic of the
>>>> forum's functionality and will be implemented on top of a defined
>>>> interface. The plan is to have the back-end as a separate carbon component.
>>>> The front-end will be a jaggery UI.
>>>>
>>>> The first implementation of the back-end will be a registry based
>>>> implementation. Reasoning for opting for a registry based implementation is
>>>> as below
>>>>
>>>> 1. The API permissions model (for visibility) can be reused since APIs
>>>> are also registry artifacts.
>>>> 2. Pagination support
>>>> 3. Registry indexing support
>>>> 4. Clear separation of concerns for Multi Tenancy.
>>>>
>>>> One drawback of the registry is that a given tenant user not being able
>>>> to write to another tenant registry. We plan to solve this by allowing that
>>>> particular user to comment as 'anonymous' and capture his username via in
>>>> input (textbox).
>>>>
>>>> There will be 3 types of registry resources (rxts) involved in the
>>>> implementation.
>>>>
>>>> 1. topic.rxt - Represents the forum topic. Will have attributes as
>>>> Subject, Body, etc.
>>>>  2. reply.rxt - Represents a reply for a given topic. Has an
>>>> association to topic.rxt
>>>> 3. category.rxt - Represents a forum topic category (similar to a tag)
>>>>
>>>> The resource hierarchy for the topic.rxt and reply.rxt would be as
>>>> shown below
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <Forum Registry Architecture (1).png>
>>>>
>>>> The rxts are stored under a sub-collection of root collection 'topics'.
>>>> The sub-collection is a variable which could either be 'common' (for
>>>> general topics) and in the form of 'provider_apiname_version' for topics
>>>> linked to a particular API(s). The resource permissions are applied to the
>>>> sub-collection so that visibility of those topics are handled accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts welcome
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> NuwanD.
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
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