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

[Ron Mitchell]

> 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.

 

The FWS need applies to quite a lot of people who install XOT too. Tweaking
xwd's is beyond what some will do.

They don't access the SVN only the zip download - which is already 1.8 and
already includes the connectors apart from Scenario as part of the base
install and 'official release'

If a future release or update provides options for easily
including/excluding page types via management etc and then a base + options
feature or even more modularity great! I think Tom already has most of that
ready to go for 1.8 but not yet part of management. Pat obviously has even
further modularity in 1.9.

 

There was a lot of interest in connectors at the agm. My point is simply
that the lack of clarity about use of page ID and debate about navigation
can be resolved with help and improvements/changes not by removing the
connectors from base 1.8 install when there isn't a current FWS option for
enabling/disabling them.

 

 

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
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.

 

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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Then maybe the connector pages should be withdrawn from the XOT release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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