Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-07 Thread Guillaume Delhumeau
Le jeu. 7 févr. 2019 à 14:40, Eduard Moraru  a écrit :

> +1 in general, but please consider migration issues, specially calls to the
> {{activity/}} macro that will be still found in wiki pages that will stop
> working if the ActivityStream (which is a macro) is removed.
>

The UI of Activity Stream (which defines the macro you mentioned) is
already removed from XWiki Standard. But the retro-compatibility is handled
by
https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Legacy%20Notification%20Activity%20Macro/
.

It's actually a good thing you that did not realized AS was not there
anymore :)


>
> Also, for anyone using or extending the ActivityStream plugin's API
> directly, their code will fail. I doubt there were many (if any) users of
> the relatively obscure EventStream API, so the effect of the backwards
> compatible "Event Stream Store" implementation will not compensate for
> much, IMO.
>
> What I am personally concerned about is that, ideally, the upgrade to the
> new XWiki version (which no longer bundles these modules) require as less
> (preferably none) manual operations as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 5:10 PM Marius Dumitru Florea <
> mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marius
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:50 PM Guillaume Delhumeau <
> > guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear developers,
> > >
> > > Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> > > Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them
> and
> > > to move them into the "attic" section.
> > >
> > > You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API,
> as
> > > the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications
> > are
> > > based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> > > component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> > > implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream
> > Store".
> > > It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> > > using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> > > Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> > > information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> > >
> > > So my proposal is this one:
> > > - use the new store in 11.1
> > > - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
> > > - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
> > >
> > > Thanks you,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> > > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> > > Committer on the XWiki.org project
> > >
> >
>


-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-07 Thread Eduard Moraru
+1 in general, but please consider migration issues, specially calls to the
{{activity/}} macro that will be still found in wiki pages that will stop
working if the ActivityStream (which is a macro) is removed.

Also, for anyone using or extending the ActivityStream plugin's API
directly, their code will fail. I doubt there were many (if any) users of
the relatively obscure EventStream API, so the effect of the backwards
compatible "Event Stream Store" implementation will not compensate for
much, IMO.

What I am personally concerned about is that, ideally, the upgrade to the
new XWiki version (which no longer bundles these modules) require as less
(preferably none) manual operations as possible.

Thanks,
Eduard

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 5:10 PM Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:50 PM Guillaume Delhumeau <
> guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> > Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> > to move them into the "attic" section.
> >
> > You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> > the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications
> are
> > based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> > component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> > implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream
> Store".
> > It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> > using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> > Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> > information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> >
> > So my proposal is this one:
> > - use the new store in 11.1
> > - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
> > - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
> >
> > Thanks you,
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> > Committer on the XWiki.org project
> >
>


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-06 Thread Marius Dumitru Florea
+1

Thanks,
Marius

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:50 PM Guillaume Delhumeau <
guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> wrote:

> Dear developers,
>
> Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> to move them into the "attic" section.
>
> You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications are
> based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream Store".
> It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
>
> So my proposal is this one:
> - use the new store in 11.1
> - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
> - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
>
> Thanks you,
>
> --
> Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> Committer on the XWiki.org project
>


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-05 Thread Guillaume Delhumeau
Le mar. 5 févr. 2019 à 11:33, Vincent Massol  a écrit :

> Hi Guillaume,
>
> > On 4 Feb 2019, at 12:50, Guillaume Delhumeau <
> guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> > Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> > to move them into the "attic" section.
>
> +1
>
> > You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> > the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications
> are
> > based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> > component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> > implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream
> Store".
> > It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> > using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> > Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> > information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> >
> > So my proposal is this one:
> > - use the new store in 11.1
>
> Already in action! +1
>
> > - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
>
> +1
>
> > - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
>
> IMO this could be done in 11.1 too since if we stop bundling Watchlist/AS
> then we don’t need to keep the modules in platform.
>

I wanted to release a new "official" version of AS before moving it to
attic, because I made a few changes on it (like moving some components that
had nothing to do in AS).


>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> >
> > Thanks you,
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> > Committer on the XWiki.org project
>
>

-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-05 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi Guillaume,

> On 4 Feb 2019, at 12:50, Guillaume Delhumeau  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear developers,
> 
> Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> to move them into the "attic" section.

+1

> You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications are
> based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream Store".
> It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> 
> So my proposal is this one:
> - use the new store in 11.1

Already in action! +1

> - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1

+1

> - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2

IMO this could be done in 11.1 too since if we stop bundling Watchlist/AS then 
we don’t need to keep the modules in platform.

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
> Thanks you,
> 
> -- 
> Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> Committer on the XWiki.org project



Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-04 Thread Guillaume Delhumeau
Le lun. 4 févr. 2019 à 14:35, Thomas Mortagne  a
écrit :

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:50 PM Guillaume Delhumeau
>  wrote:
> >
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> > Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> > to move them into the "attic" section.
> >
> > You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> > the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications
> are
> > based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> > component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> > implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream
> Store".
> > It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> > using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> > Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> > information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> >
> > So my proposal is this one:
> > - use the new store in 11.1
>
> > - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
>
> Will 11.1 version be easily installable as extension (in case some old
> extension needs it for example) ?
>

AS needs a custom property in hibernate.cfg.xml plus a special config in
xwiki.cfg (since it is a plugin), and the Watchlist needs AS to be
installed. So, in short, not easy installable.



>
> > - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
> >
> > Thanks you,
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> > Committer on the XWiki.org project
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Mortagne
>


-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-04 Thread Thomas Mortagne
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:50 PM Guillaume Delhumeau
 wrote:
>
> Dear developers,
>
> Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> to move them into the "attic" section.
>
> You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications are
> based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream Store".
> It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
>
> So my proposal is this one:
> - use the new store in 11.1

> - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1

Will 11.1 version be easily installable as extension (in case some old
extension needs it for example) ?

> - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2
>
> Thanks you,
>
> --
> Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> Committer on the XWiki.org project



-- 
Thomas Mortagne


[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Get rid of Activity Stream and the Watchlist

2019-02-04 Thread Guillaume Delhumeau
Dear developers,

Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
to move them into the "attic" section.

You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications are
based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream Store".
It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052

So my proposal is this one:
- use the new store in 11.1
- stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1
- move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2

Thanks you,

-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project