On 08/30/2010 07:16 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:

>> The "user centric" view, imho, is also useful because a "user" could
>> also be an application that sends events (e.g., meeting or deadlines
>> reminders, etc.) that can be shown in a more natural way in a user
>> centric view. Basically even applications might share their thoughts
>> through the activity stream ;)
>
> I completely agree with the last sentence. BUT I think it's not incompatible 
> with a document/user mixed-approched (I don't think either full 
> document-centric or full user-centric can embrace the versatility of XWiki)
>
> I see two types of entries :
>
> * Document updates. Basically what is currently in latest proposal (though I 
> would add little user pictures here as well, even before the click). This is 
> KM, collaboration, etc.
> * Users/applications updates. Those are less structured, more a-la facebook.
>
> I see something like 
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/ActivityStreamMixed 
> (raw picture, would have to be refined)
> (Note I also have right-padded a bit more the comment/annotation/pencil/etc 
> icons that are on top of user photos, I think they were a bit too masked by 
> them)
>
I would have called that version "user centric" as well since documents 
updates might be seen as posts done by the "XWiki system" user :)

Anyway, I think that the mixed approach is fine.

-Fabio
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