Hi everyone, I'm following up on a thread started in 2015 about the best practices regarding app pages organization:
- https://xwiki.markmail.org/message/657vcm6ylkz4yytc - https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPractices In this thread, the idea of introducing a dedicated common root area for all application technical pages was suggested by Denis: https://xwiki.markmail.org/message/kk5l3dwjmpfelkzp I'm wondering why this idea was not pushed further (it's not strictly incompatible with the current best practices, but most of the recent applications have their top level area, except a few like Notifications or ChartJS). Comparing with how other platforms do is inspirational (Microsoft Windows "Program Files" was mentioned in the thread). On Debian, the Maven package is installed in /usr/share/maven/ while files used and produced by Maven can be located anywhere. Along the same line, I would see as a user and developer experience improvement if we had the following structure: 1) Code: XWiki |- MyApp |- MyAppClass |- MyAppSheet |- ... 2) Data: the pages created by MyApp could then typically be located by default in a MyApp space at the root of the wiki, the user could however choose which default space to use, or leave it empty (then the space from where the user fires the create action could be used, for instance, or any scriptable rule). Another issue I see with the current practice (raised by Clément A. orally) is that some application names may conflict with names the user would like to use for content that is not strictly related to the app. Not necessarily a big deal with one thousand of applications, but might become one with more, wouldn't it? I understand that the layout proposed above would raise technical issues (XWiki space permissions for instance, mentionned in the 2015 thread, and others), however what's your view on it from a design perspective? (sorry if I overlooked strong arguments already expressed against it) Cheers Stéphane
