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?
