On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to start a vote to move the ratings and collections >> plugins out of the sandbox, as a first step to make them available >> in the default XE bundle. >> >> We now have some clients that are using these plugins in >> production, so it is time to make them real plugins. >> >> Some history about the ratings and collections plugins. >> >> RATINGS: >> >> This plugin allows to record ratings about any item, an particular >> documents. It stores ratings in separate spaces and records the >> calculated average rating in the document itself. >> It includes java and groovy hooks to write custom rating >> calculation. This can be usefull to not calculate a single average >> but to include the "rating" of the users in the calculation. >> A skin extension allows to include the ratings selection mecanism >> in the UI (it's a separate module). >> >> As a second step the Ratings plugin and application can be bundled >> in standard XWiki. >> >> COLLECTION: >> >> The collection plugin allows to manipulate collections of XWiki >> documents. The plugin is the basis for the MultiPage Export >> feature allowing to make a PDF or a XAR of multiple pages. >> >> The collection plugin also includes a special activity stream >> allowing to record changes of a document and all it's childs. The >> changes are recorded only for documents that match a specific class >> set in xwiki.cfg. >> >> As a second step an application can be published for MultiPage >> Export on code.xwiki.org . Some changes are still necessary for >> that to not depend on skin modifications for this to work so it >> will be done later. >> >> Here is my +1 for both. > > -0 till we find committers willing to take charge of them. > > They are now in the sandbox only because there are no committers in > charge of them. First step is to find someone to be responsible for > them. The rest will happen automatically.
Note: I'm +1 for the idea of making these part of the platform. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
