Hi Niels, On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
> I think there should be a administration configuration panel with a > long > list of plugins or apps that can get included or excluded at the > click of a > button, with most excluded by default in XE > -- calendar on/off > -- photo on/off > -- watch on/off > -- office importer on/off > -- wiki manager on/off > -- space manager on/off > -- social networking feature on/off > > etc. > > Niels > http://nielsmayer.com > > PS: I applaud the current attempt at rationalizing the product > offering by > reducuing the number of overlapping platforms. I personally think it > should > be further rationalized by having only one distribution -- XE -- This is exactly what we have started to do. XWS will be transformed into applications/plugins for XE. Watch is already an XE application. Etc. > but using a > feature like the aforementioned options panel to automatically > download and > deploy extra options at runtime, perhaps using existing maven > mechanisms to > assure compatibility between the installed version of XE core and > the add-on > apps and panels. Yes this is exactly what we want to do, including the maven part (although Jason Van Zyl told me we should not use pure maven pom.xml for application descriptors and he pointed me to the plugin manager they're using in Nexus: http://svn.sonatype.org/spice/trunk/plugin-manager/). Some doc here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ApplicationManager It's really cool to see where on the same wavelength :) Thanks -Vincent > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Dan Miron <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> IMO, we should remove only the PhotoAlbum, in case the Calendar >> doesn't >> have major bugs. >>> +1 >>> >>> Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I suggest that we remove Calendar and PhotoAlbum applications >>>> from XE >>>> default wiki. >>>> >>>> Rationale: >>>> >>>> - PhotoAlbum is almost unusable with HQ photos (basically any pic >>>> taken with a digital camera) because of XE attachment management >>>> known >>>> bugs. >>>> - In their current state those applications doesn't meet XEs >>>> quality >>>> requirements: test coverage, usability, performance (PhotoAlbum). >>>> - Those 2 applications are orphan projects (no active project >>>> leaders), btw anyone whishing to care of them is welcome. >>>> >>>> Here's my +1. >>>> >>>> JV. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
