Rollie's design review last week was very fruitful. Most of the issues resulting from it have been ticketed. Many are fairly trivial look-and-feel issues; to save your inboxes I invite you to investigate Trac and check the timeline ( http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/timeline ) to see updates on those.
However, there is a significant change recommended to the map composition and metadata workflows that's covered by these tickets. The motivation behind these changes is that the currently implemented workflow was designed before the Map Information Page was available as the main gateway to understanding a map. Now, we ought to integrate the composer and the info pages: * http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/ticket/595 * http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/ticket/596 * http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/ticket/595 <http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/ticket/595>To summarize: The "About" accordian tab in the composer should be removed. A top bar showing the map title prominently and with a link to the info page should replace it. The Save workflow should bring up a dialog that will let people add metadata to the map. The map info page should have an "Edit Metadata" link to a web form for metadata editing (similar to the workflow for editing a layer's metadata). Additional details are in those tickets. ------------------------- Questions: * Any thoughts on implementation of these before we get to it? Any objections to it on technical grounds? * I think I'm comfortable enough with the code base here to implement many of these changes, but I was wondering if anybody would be interested in collaborating. Basically, I work on it in a branch in my own fork, or I could make it a branch in the geonode origin repo. Which is preferable? -- Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
