Hi Caty, If you think it’s important to see all RN for a cycle, we could implement what I mentioned, ie a second LT showing only cycles (and thus introduce a new xobject). Let me know what you think and whether it’s overkill or not?
Thanks -Vincent > Le 18 déc. 2018 à 13:51, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi Caty, > >> On 18 Dec 2018, at 11:39, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I don't want to drop it, since it helped me have a grouped release notes >> per cycle. > > I really don’t see the need, could you explain? > >> Especially since it contains release from when the Release Notes app didn't >> existed (< 8.2). Also you cannot make the livetable "Version" filter say: >> "start with 8.", since you will also have results like "10.8" if you are >> filtering for "8.x". So these pages list only the valid releases and in the >> correct order. > > Honestly this is overkill and I’m pretty sure that it’s ok for users.They can > type “8.” for ex and even if that would match “6.4.8”, it’s very much usable > IMO. > > Regarding RN for versions < 8.2, there’s already a RN Archives page here: > https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Archives > > So what you have put for 7.x, 8.x and 9.x is already a duplicate of what we > have at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Archives ;) > > My only point is that we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel. If you want to improve > the RN app then cool but please let’s not redo it! :) > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:21 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Caty, >>> >>>>> On 17 Dec 2018, at 13:03, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sounds ok. >>>> >>>> I just want to let you know that regarding cycles, there are 2 pages: >>>> * 1 archive page that has like a toc of links to all the releases in the >>>> cycle + link to summary, example: >>>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki7x/ >>> >>> Yes I’ve seen this page but I don’t feel it’s very interesting. I think >>> it’s duplicating the existing LT and doesn’t add a lot of value. I’d be in >>> favor of dropping it. WDYT? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>>> * 1 that contains the summary, example: >>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki7x/Summary >>>> >>>> If we were not to add this xobject, alternatively we could manually list >>>> the cycle archive page, but I guess the xobject is a more scalable >>>> solution. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Caty >>>> >>>>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:30 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi devs, >>>>> >>>>> This is especially for Caty who created: >>>>> * >>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki7x/Summary >>>>> * >>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki8x/Summary >>>>> * >>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki9x/Summary >>>>> * >>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki10x/Summary >>>>> >>>>> Right now these summaries don’t appear on >>>>> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ >>>>> >>>>> I’m proposing to simply add a ReleaseNotes.Code.ReleaseNoteClass xobject >>>>> to them so that they can appear in the RN LT, and to use the following >>>>> xproperty values: >>>>> >>>>> * Product: XWiki >>>>> * Version: 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x >>>>> * Is released: true >>>>> * Release Date: 31/12/<year> >>>>> >>>>> The alternative is more complex and involves creating a new XClass for >>>>> Cycle Summaries and modifying the home page to list cycle summaries in >>> a LT >>>>> (so that it can scale). Of course we could also do a lightweight >>> version by >>>>> simply having a link on the home page to a cycle summary page listing >>> links >>>>> to individual summaries. It would be less visible but could be >>> acceptable. >>>>> However, the best and easiest is for me to add the >>>>> ReleaseNotes.Code.ReleaseNoteClass xobjects to Cycle RN pages. >>>>> >>>>> WDYT? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> -Vincent >
