On Sep 7, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am writing to the list in order to discuss an architectural choice > which I had the chance to talk about with Vincent. > > In the framework of the Wiki3.0 [1] projects we are building a social > extension of XWiki that will introduce social-oriented functionalities > in the platform. > > One of these functionalities are related to "Workspaces" which have been > defined as a "virtual place where a group of users can collaborate on a > given topic. A workspace implicitly defines a social-network which > consists of the users that participate to the activities in the context > of a given workspace." > > A workspace, besides having a set of users subscribed to it, has also a > set of applications that are related to the type of the interactions > that are carried in the workspace itself (e.g., a blog, a meeting > manager, etc.) > > This is the abstract picture. At the architectural level this could be > implemented in different ways. > > What we briefly discussed with Vincent is that workspaces could be > easily handled by using XEM. In this case, instead of having a mapping > Workspace <-> space in a single Wiki we would have a Workspace <-> wiki > in a multiwiki setup managed by XEM. > > This has several advantages since the current features can be already > leveraged and extended in order to implement workspace functionalities: > > 1) existing applications are already ready-to-deploy > 2) rights management is already enough to manage subscriptions > 3) being a workspace a full wiki this gives the users more flexibility > (e.g., they are not constrained to a single space for organizing their > content) > > In this picture the main wiki could be used only as a "user container" > and will have all the functionalities (UI + code) to manage workspaces' > lifecycle (i.e., creation, deletion). Additional functionalities will > the be present in the workspace wiki for actually managing the workspace > (i.e., adding/removing members, subscription management for open > workspaces, workspace attributes management and so on). > > Initially I haven't thought about workspaces as wikis in a XEM context > by the idea is very powerful and I think we should build it in this way. > > WDYT?
big +1 from me to map workspaces to subwikis. Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks, > -Fabio > > [1] https://wiki30.xwikisas.com _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
