Hi, On Nov 23, 2010, at 11:42 AM, coldserenity wrote:
> > Hi, Devs > > Recently one idea have crossed my mind. Thought that it might be > interesting to XWiki community. > It would be nice to implement something like Maven Archetypes, just for > Wikis. That is a "XWiki Archetype Plug-in". > > Imagine a Wiki for software development project (SDP). Its structure > might be more or less the same for most of the project. You would have > * Place for storing development environment description and set-up > * There should also be a place for developers to store some hints, > code snippets etc. > * A place for "User stories" and communications with customers > * Meetings tracking place (where you keep meeting minutes, IRC logs) > * List of deliveries and release notes. > All of the above is something a modern quality-managed project cannot > survive without. And with XWiki it can be gathered into a set of templates > in a single *.xar archive like a Maven Archetype. > > At some level it can be done even with existing tools the XWiki > provides. However it can be extended even more: > * Archetypes can contain information about plug-ins and extensions > they depend on. E.g. there may be a separate meeting minutes application > which needs to be installed for our SDP Archetype example. > * Parametrized archetypes (e.g. provide project name for SDP > Archetype) > * Special UI designed to import an archetype (e.g. choose which > parts (pages and plug-ins) of the archetype you would want in your Wiki) > * Special UI designed to search Wiki Archetype repository > * Special UI for extracting an Archetype from existing Wiki > > Does it sound as a viable user-story? What kinds of other Archetypes you > can think of? Does it worth the effort, to be able to quickly start-up your > wikis and have them conform to the same style? Yes this is interesting. Right now have 2 features close to this: - Wiki templates in XEM - Template Providers in XE. See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/AdministrationApplication And we're developing the extension manager to handle extensions and their dependencies. Another related topic is XWiki Flavors: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-356 Thanks -Vincent > Regards, > Roman _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
