[Xerte-dev] Re: [Xerte] Re: plain text connector page problem in XOT

[Julian Tenney]

No, we're not trying to take them away, the question was more about how we continue backward compatibility with standalone xerte, and that's going to be a bit tricky, because a some point we will need to say 'snip'.I don't think anyone debates that we will need to do this at some point, my own view is the roadmap expressed before:

- parity in xenith with the current suite of templates which Nottingham is undertaking
- except for connectors, which aare off our radar for the current list, but which we want to include by Easter maybe?
- Then we release version 2. I cannot tell you hw many emails I've had personally about release dates.
- GIve it a while to see what happens,  helping people through the install, and finding anf fixing the gribbles.
- Have another AGM in October to capture where we are then
 
where does 'snip' go in the list? FOr me I think it's after the v2 release, and we then release any dependencies between the two svns, so they can bth go in their own directions.
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Sent: 29 October 2012 20:35
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: [Xerte] Re: plain text connector page problem in XOT

>Page connectors could be the same - just support the addition of them, and let them work in their own way

Which is what I was getting at it the "app store" bespoke version.
I'm sort of confused as to why some here are so adamant about including page connectors with a base install.
We're not trying to take them away.

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From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:20:12 +0000
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: [Xerte] Re: plain text connector page problem in XOT



What we must avoid is a situation where people try and build content and then give up because it just doesn't work quite right, and have then essentially wasted their time. This is an important principle for toolkits.

This....

Then maybe the connector pages should be withdrawn from the XOT release until we have a common approach to the pages and resolved the navigation options.

And this are two sides of the same coin

People need to be able to know their contributions are worthwhile else they won't contribute. Part of 1.9 is making it more modular, but also 1.9 is all me so far and for all I know it'll get thrown away.

But we fix this with a road map and modularisation. You want to mess the site up, go ahead. But out of the box is this.

As a side point, the XOT Wordpress plugin gets about 100 downloads a month and I support that all by myself.

I.e with modularisation we can decentralise code and the project. Every Drupal install uses views but it is optional. Page connectors could be the same - just support the addition of them, and let them work in their own way

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