On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds good. > > What about upgrades, do you plan to provide a migrator ?
(I would love to see my old calendars converted to new style ;)) > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I see there has been some discussion on the list, as far as I understand >> there is no decision about it in general. >> >> However I would like to drop support for pre-nested pages for the mocca >> calendar on the master branch right now. >> >> The pre-nested spaces structure is: >> >> - Calendars are plain pages >> - Events are pages that have their calendar as parent page, but are >> usually placed as siblings in the same space >> (necessarily w/o nested pages) >> >> It is more natural to have calendars as nestable, non-terminal pages, and >> the corresponding events nested inside these calendar pages. >> >> Bugs that would be easy to solve after dropping support: >> >> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/MOCCACAL-91 "Cannot create two events with >> the same title in the same calendar " >> This has been fixed in 2.5.1 for pre-nested pages, but that fix does not >> work for nested pages. >> Admittedly it could also be fixed with an if (nested space) do x else y >> I have to admit that I am reluctant to implement the if-else fork and >> fully test it (If I do not test both nested and pre-nested spaces it will be >> broken with high probability) >> In some places there are already horrible if-else clauses to support both >> colibri and flamingo, which I put there and the experience makes me >> unwilling to try this again with nested spaces. >> >> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/MOCCACAL-93 "Preinstalled "Other Events" >> Calendar should not be a terminal page" >> This actually can not be fixed in a pre-nested spaces compatible way (I >> think) Another great feature of nested space based calendar: you can watch a single calendar just by watching its page instead of having to watch eveything. >> >> >> Proposal: >> a) there is already a "stable-2.5" branch. >> all fixes and improvements for pre-nested spaces will/should go on this >> branch >> b) master will switch its xwiki platform dependency from 5.4 to 7.4.2 >> (not 7.2 for me, because 7.4.2 is what I am willing to test against ... >> any takers to test with 7.2 ?) >> c) for now, the old "parent-child" relationship will still be used to >> determine which events belong to which calendar >> so no migration from pre-nested spaces is really necessary - at least I >> think so. Of course this should be tested. >> (It would be nice to have such migration, of course. I am not sure how >> to write this, however.) >> >> >> Any opinions? Should I send an official [vote] request? >> >> Clemens >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
