The url is here
https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/cms
and is publicly readable.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com>
> To: Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
> Cc: dev@ofbiz.apache.org; infrastruct...@apache.org
> Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 3:42:35 PM
> Subject: Re: ofbiz wiki(confluence)
>
> On 09/21/2010 02:07 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> > From: "Adam Heath" <doo...@brainfood.com>
> >> On 09/21/2010 11:53 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> >>> From: "Adam Heath" <doo...@brainfood.com>
> >>>> So, I need some admin help with cwiki.apache.org, or at least advice.
> >>>> I've got a script that uses xmlrpc to confluence, and fetches all
> >>>> previous page(+versions), comments, attachments(+versions), tracks
> >>>> renames, usernames, and commit messages. I then take all this data and
> >>>> convert it into a long series of git commits, with the files layed out
> >>>> in a proper webslinger design. The author of each git commit is the
> >>>> person who changed the page, added a comment, or uploaded a new
> >>>> attachment.
> >>
> >> This webslinger layout is still in flux, as is my script. The basic
> >> logic works, however, by fetching all meta data, storing most of the
> >> bulk of that in a temporary cache folder(only for the duration of the
> >> script), then sorting each item by date, and replaying the set of
> >> changes one by one.
> >>
> >> It's optimized by storing the 'lastFoo' stuff for each
> >> page/comment/attachment/(title->pageId mapping) as needed, so that it
> >> can detect newer versions, etc, and not have to do anything. A refresh
> >> after a full download against the OFBIZ space takes 2 minutes, with
> >> nothing new to fetch.
> >>
> >>>> The issue I am having is the confluence installed on cwiki is old.
> >>>> Newer versions support returning the PageHistorySummary.versionComment
> >>>> thru the rpc; currently, I have to fall back and do a screen scrape of
> >>>> the viewpreviousversions.action page.
> >>
> >> CONFDEV docs definately list a versionComment field on
> >> PageHistorySummary, that is not exposed in 3.2.0 installed on cwiki.
> >>
> >>>> Where should I ask for help on this, getting this new api implemented?
> >>>
> >>> infra team: infrastruct...@apache.org
> >>>
> >>> I put them in copy
> >>
> >> Thanks. I'm putting more information in this email; I've left
> >> d...@ofbiz on the cc for this email, as others might be interested in
> >> what I have discovered.
> >>
> >>>> I also have suggestions to make the api more lightweight, when doing
> >>>> incremental updates(which my system supports).
> >>
> >> Here are the suggestions:
> >>
> >> I can fetch all attachments for a page. But the attachment data
> >> returned doesn't include the current version as a field. I have to
> >> split the download url(which is sub-optimal; it includes the current
> >> version as a parameter). It might be nice to have an AttachmentSummary
> >> type record.
> >>
> >> What if uploads an attachment, then a new version of the attachment,
> >> then changes the page, then deletes the attachment? How could I fetch
> >> that information? I don't see a way to fetch all attachments for all
> >> time against a particular history. This is also a problem for deleted
> >> pages, comments, and labels(probably others).
> >>
> >> Comments in confluence support editting. Is this history stored, and
> >> if so, can I get access to it?
> >>
> >> Are labels versioned?
> >>
> >> Children of pages are versioned, only because pages themselves are
> >> versioned, which includes the value of the parentId at the time the
> >> page was changed. However, the frontend doesn't let you see older
> >> children, when looking at previous versions.
> >>
> >> It'd be nice if when calling getPageHistory, I could request a subset
> >> of the list, instead of *all* page versions. If a page has 271
> >> versions, and I have already fetched them, and the current page has a
> >> version of 274, then I only really need to fetch 3 PageHistorySummary
> >> records(to get the versionComment from newer versions of confluence).
> >>
> >> BlogEntrySummary doesn't include version, but BlogEntry does. And I
> >> can't fetch old versions of blogs.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> As a side note, there is a severe lack of version comments. This
> >>>> script ends up producing 3117 commits. Some of those are page
> >>>> renames/comments/attachments, which don't have a commit message. Most
> >>>> are page commits. There are only 70 change messages. It'd be nice if
> >>>> people would comment when they change a page, but I don't see a way to
> >>>> enforce that.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > There is currently a beginning effort to create a CMS for apache.org
> > (infrastructure/trunk/projects/cms) is yours related to this effort?
>
> No, it's not. Based on how much time I've spent already(started my
> imoprter last friday), and how familiar I am with ofbiz, it'd probably
> take me a 2 months to get mostly feature compatible with
> confluence(that's for a single person working in his spare time).
>
> > Jacques
> > PS: Not sure how to access to infrastructure/trunk/projects/cms/README
> > with the rights I have
>
> You mean it's not public?
>
