[xwiki-devs] Short URLs and masking /templates - a simple idea
Hello, I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls ( http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding /templates ( http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ). Could you please check the mail at http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do you think? Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the needed changes in web.xml. Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Hello, I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls ( http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding /templates ( http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ).
Could you please check the mail at http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do you think?
Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the needed changes in web.xml.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Am I really the only one finding the idea useful? Greetings, Lilianne
On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Hello, I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls ( http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding / templates ( http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ).
Could you please check the mail at http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do you think?
Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the needed changes in web.xml.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Am I really the only one finding the idea useful?
Probably not but maybe you're the only one who has had the time to look into your email so far... ;) Thanks -Vincent
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Hello, I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls ( http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding /templates ( http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ).
Could you please check the mail at http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do you think?
Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the needed changes in web.xml.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Am I really the only one finding the idea useful?
No, it is a great idea, and I've tried to find time to write a Default servlet. The ones from Tomcat and Jetty seemed to have too many dependencies on the rest of the container, so they were not a good place to start. If you think that the one from myfaces is easy to "steal", as you said in your email, then please go ahead and make it ready for XWiki. As for hiding templates, I think that a better way would be to make the location of the templates directory customizable, and be able to put it in WEB-INF/templates altogether (not just a macros file). Someone still has to do a complete review of the mail patch, I only had time for a quick review. Thank you for your interest in XWiki, sorry for not being able to provide quicker feedback, and I hope you will continue to collaborate with us. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
Hello, I have a simple idea which would help both with short urls ( http://markmail.org/message/vtf45hz5qkwanlkg ) and hiding / templates ( http://markmail.org/message/5n2wkriajiluz4ag ).
Could you please check the mail at http://markmail.org/message/snu2zxda464oyshv and tell me what do you think?
Note it in no way interferes or interacts with XWiki, other than the needed changes in web.xml.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze
Am I really the only one finding the idea useful?
No, it is a great idea, and I've tried to find time to write a Default servlet. The ones from Tomcat and Jetty seemed to have too many dependencies on the rest of the container, so they were not a good place to start. If you think that the one from myfaces is easy to "steal", as you said in your email, then please go ahead and make it ready for XWiki.
As for hiding templates, I think that a better way would be to make the location of the templates directory customizable, and be able to put it in WEB-INF/templates altogether (not just a macros file).
Someone still has to do a complete review of the mail patch, I only had time for a quick review.
Thank you for your interest in XWiki, sorry for not being able to provide quicker feedback, and I hope you will continue to collaborate with us.
Yes, I'd also like to say that I haven't had much time in answering community emails lately since I've been working on the new rendering mechanism amongst other things, and I'm sorry about that. We need the full community's help. Other committers are quite busy too. What we really need are new committers and we're open to accept them (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing and http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Committership). If you were interested the first step is for us to review your mail patch, provide comments if need be, you submit a new patch (if need be) and we apply it. Then you work on other things and submit other patches. Once you reach a level of comfort with xwiki's dev process and your patches can be easily applied with no change then it will be a trigger signal showing that you're getting ready to become a committer. You'd also need to show interest for helping others and caring about xwiki at large and not just about your needs. At that stage we would propose you to become a committer and send a vote. We're not there yet but I wanted to highlight the process since I see you have the will the contribute to the xwiki platform. Thanks Lilianne, -Vincent
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Lilianne E. Blaze -
Sergiu Dumitriu -
Vincent Massol