On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > I've read the proposal and I like it in general. Nice work! > > <roadmap/general ideas> > Stepping back a little and talking about roadmaps I think we should > eat more our own dogfood, meaning we should use XWatch internally > for our needs and find out what's useful for us first. This would be > a good process to define what's useful for others too. Personally > I'm not using any of the Watch UI right now. All I use is the > resulting RSS feed > (this one: > http://watch.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/WatchCode/PressReviewRss?space=XWikiSAS&flagged=0&trashed=-1&read=0&group=XWikiSAS.GroupXWikiNews&xpage=rdf&basicauth=1) > > I don't know how others in XWiki are using XWatch but I have the > feeling we could learn a lot from that. > > I think there needs to be some incentive for users to use the tool > (the filtering/categorizing part) they'll just use it as a basic RSS > aggregator (as I do). I don't have the full answer to that but I can > think of several ideas: > > 1) Its scope could be extended so that it supports different input > sources (as discussed previously and also by Guillaume in this > thread): > a) Mails from mailing lists (this would require difference actions, > like "closed discussion", "associate jira issue", etc. > b) Documents in a WebDAV store > c) XWiki Documents (pages) - This could be a nice way for people to > classify/navigate in a wiki. > > 2) Integration with external tools. For example if I could flag > articles directly from my favorite RSS feed readers without having > to open XWiki Watch I'd definitely start tagging/filtering. I think > this could be done easily by adding HTML at the beginning or end of > feeds provided by XWiki Watch. We could add some Flag/Comment links > there that would open inline (Javascript - I think most feed readers > would support that). > </roadmap/general ideas> > > WDYT?
BTW this is starting to remind me of Omea... See http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/ and http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/vmassol/archives/000869_omea_pro_review.html -Vincent > Note that solution 1) a), if done correctly could potentially solve > our need for a forum. What I'd like right now from a forum is 2 > things: the ability to extract some statistics (namely to list the > top 10 contributors) and to tell when a thread is closed or not > (it's not closed if the question asked has not been satisfactorily > answered). I know we're getting a bit away from the initial Watch > idea but I think it could broaden its usage and it would definitely > fit in the "organize and categorize information" domain. > > On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:29 AM, ★Ecaterina Valica wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The new XWatch User Interface Proposal is available at: >> >> http://watch.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewUIProposal >> >> I'd be glad to get some feedback either on the list or in comments >> right on >> the page. >> I would also like to thank Anca, Guillaume and Eduard for their >> feedback and >> help given so far :) >> >> Thanks, >> Ecaterina Valica _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
