I indeed forgot about XWikiDocument#getId which move my vote to -1.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree with Vincent, and I'm actually -1 for changing it to "identifier". > Internally, a document already has an identifier, the generated hash. > > On 08/25/2015 11:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> You do realize that changing “page name” to “identifier” means introducing a >> new vocabulary and means >> - changing lots of wiki pages on xwiki.org, >> - changing APIs that will no longer be consistent, such as pageName in the >> REST model, getPageName() in create.js, etc >> - changing all places in the UI where we use “page name" >> >> That’s a *huge* work... >> >> ATM I’m -0 and very close to -1 to change the vocabulary since we already >> have a lot to do with NS/ND. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> Hi, >> >> With the latest changes to the create UI [1] we`ve changed (mostly >> following the agreed-ish proposal [2]) the old "Page Name" label in the >> create UI to "Identifier" because we believed that having both "Page Title" >> and "Page Name" on the same page would confuse users and they would not >> know which one to use. >> >> Now, I`d like your quick vote on which one to stick with, since some might >> consider that "Page Name" is better. >> >> One argument for page name (i.e. against "identifier") is that an >> "identifier" is usually globally unique and in our case this is only true >> within the same parent. Also, copying a document to a new location and >> preserving its "identifier" can feel a bit odd to some, since they would >> expect the need for a new "identifier". Feel free to express your other >> arguments. >> >> Another argument for identifier besides the one already mentioned is that >> it also better reflects its "technical" nature and should "discourage" >> users from working with it and they should be using the document's title >> instead of their needs (both in the create step and further along). >> >> Here's my +1 for "identifier". >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks, >> Eduard >> >> ---------- >> [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12231 >> [2] >> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/NestedCreate/createTitle1.png >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
