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

[Pat Lockley]

Do we have time (in a Nottingham sense) to structure around this?
Because I think XOT 2 could have a shedload of features - not just the
HTML5

I don't want to see possessive - I really did plan to do a little less
round here at some point, but the idea of making a learning object CMS
seems kinda tempting.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I don't think anyone debates that we will need to do this at some point
>
> I do.
> I refuse to allow it.
>
>> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:40:15 +0000
>
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: [Xerte] Re: plain text connector page problem in
>> XOT
>>
>> 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.
>> ________________________________________
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
>> [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
>> Sent: 29 October 2012 20:35
>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> 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.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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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