On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:15, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Denis,
> On 13 Mar 2017, at 19:21, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Edy, Vincent, > Based on your concerns and our findings, I have finally crafts a design > document here: > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/BlogImprovemultiblogsupport > You were right Edy about the need to better support existing sharing of > categories and we have therefore improve our proposal in that regard. It now > covers mostly all features of the existing blogs like before, with one small > difference: the uncategorised posts from other blog spaces than the Blog > space will not be displayed outside of that local blog space. > After further thought, we noticed that the actual Blog space will be slightly > special because it will stay the only blog space to store both blog post and > blog categories in the same space. Which has the consequences of having the > Categories WebHome and the blog WebHome at the same location. The general > intend is to properly slip set of categories and blogs, so that the home of a > set of categories display posts from all blog posts using any of the > categories of the set, while the home of the blog will display only post of > that given blog. For the special Blog.WebHome we have finally decided to do a > mix, which is all blog posts using any of the categories in Blog + all posts > in Blogs. This is the closest to the actual behaviour and the best compromise > in our opinion to move forward. Regarding the categories themselves, these > will continue to work as before, and display all blog posts of that > particular categories, whatever the blog there are from is. > All that said, in this first version, we will not support the creation of new > blogs that share a set of categories from the UI. All new blogs will be > created with its own set of categories stored in a subspace of the blog space > names Categories. > I hope the linked design document will respond to all your remaining > questions. Don’t hesitate to ask if you still have concerns about the > proposed change. Thanks for this design page and the precision it brings. FYI I’ve added some questions/comments in annotations on that document. My main question is how do you configure a new blog to display all blog posts using the same categories that it’s using, i.e. to make it behave similarly to the Blog.WebHome blog? I was thinking that this could be done without UI and by introducing an “aggregate” boolean xproperty in the BlogClass (it would be “false” by default). Currently the only reason why Blog.WebHome got that special feature is because it is mixed with the WebHome of the Blog space categories. In a normal situation, the WebHome of the category space will display the aggregation except for uncategorised post. Do you really feel there is a great value to have uncategorised post of a given blog aggregated with posts that use the same categories as that blog ? My feeling is that it looks complex and not easy understandable. BTW, you didn’t mention introducing the {{blogPost}} macro on that design page. I’d envision it as a simple macro used to display the posts of a given blog: {{blog reference=“Space1…SpaceN.WebHome”/}} (where the reference would be a reference to a document having an xobject of type BlogClass). You means to have a macro that do the same as {{display reference=“Space1…SpaceN.WebHome” /}} ? Now replying to your comments on the design documents... -- Denis WDYT? Thanks -Vincent [snip]
