Hi Marius, On Oct 26, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
> Hi devs, > > We need to decide on a technical name for the "Application Within > Minutes", i.e. the name of the platform module and the name of the > space that will hold the Application Within Minutes pages. For now I > committed my code in xwiki-platform-applicationWithinMinutes and I > used the "ApplicationWithinMinutes" space name but this is not > consistent with the way we named modules and spaces so far. Do you > have any suggestions? > > We could use simply xwiki-platform-application, but it collides with > xwiki-platform-application-manager, and I don't think it's a good idea > to merge them. Is application manager still used? Is it going to be > replaced by the extension manager? AFAIK the Application Manager was about defining an XClass for grouping pages together and forming an application (with a version, description, etc). The Extension Manager is independent of this, it's just about installing/upgrading/removing extensions. An application is just one type of extension. So Application Manager is still a valid notion and we need it. I can think of several use cases: - Ability to list all applications in the wiki - Ability to tell a user that the page he's editing is part of an application and ensure that he really wants to modify the application (which may require some merging later on if he upgrades the application) - Ability to remove an application - Ability to list applications in the Application Panel we discussed a while ago (we talked about mapping an Application to a space but in practice it doesn't have to be limited to that) - Ability to export an application from the wiki as an extension and publish it directly on extensions.xwiki.org. I envision a page listing all applications with an export button next to them. AppWithinMinute would need to use the Application Manager IMO so that it puts all pages it creates under an Application descriptor. So yes while AppWithinMinutes and Application Manager could be grouped together there's no reason not to keep them separate I think. So ….. here are some ideas: * xwiki-platform-application/ --> "Application" space, i.e. what defines an application (this is the current Application Manager) Then we have several possibilities for "AppWithinMinutes": A) xwiki-platform-appwizard/ or xwiki-platform-application-wizard/--> "Application Wizard" or Application space B) xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes/ or xwiki-platform-application-within-minutes/--> "Application Within Minutes" or Application space C) xwiki-platform-appcreator/ or xwiki-platform-application-creator/ --> "Application Creator" or Application space D) xwiki-platform- appgenerator/ or xwiki-platform-application-generator --> "Application Generator" or Application space E) xwiki-platform-appfoundy/ or xwiki-platform-application-foundry --> "Application Foundry" or Application space BTW we should probably move to using spaces in Space names when they are compound names (for example: "Annotation Code" rather than "AnnotationCode") since they are human-readable names and not ids. My preference goes to A) (the xwiki-platform-appwizard/ short form and "Application Wizard" space name) since I think "Wizard" is the most well known terminology for what "AppWithinMinutes" is. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
