Christopher Denter
Contact
Email: <moin AT SPAMFREE the-space-station DOT com>
About me
Hi. My name is Christopher Denter. See this link for a summary of my activities. I'm participating in GSoC 2009 for MoinMoin. Click here for more information on that.
My schedule (besides GSoC)
This marks dates where I won't be available due to other liabilities (I'm still a regular person/student as well 
).
Important dates (not listing time for preparation for exams and the like):
- 28.05. (Exam)
- 12.06. (Exam)
- 18.06. (Talk1)
- 19.06. (Talk2)
- 23.06 (Exam)
- 02.07. (Exam)
- 06.07. (GSoC Midterm)
- 22.07. (Exam)
- 24.07. (Exam)
- 27.07. (Exam)
- 25.07. (End of Lectures)
- 30.07. (Exam)
- 17.08. (GSoC Pencils down)
Since I'll be quite busy with preparations for exams here's some days where I hope I'll have some time to work on Moin (no promise):
- Thursday evening (23rd)
- Friday (24th)
- Monday evening (27th)
(I'll of course try to code whenever possible in between)
Thoughts on attachments (Johannes)
- Status quo
- attachments are per-page
- Goal
- attachments are just regular "items" like pages, with different mime types
This table lists existing attachment operations and their replacement:
Attachment operation |
after storage refactoring |
view attachment |
view item |
download attachment |
download raw item |
view attachments to a page |
view list of sub-pages of a page (including mime-type) |
upload attachment |
upload raw item when "creating page" |
delete attachment |
delete the item |
include image attachment: {{attachment:foo.png}} |
{{/foo.png}}, old syntax still accepted |
include attachment "from another page": N/A |
{{otherpage/foo.png}} |
rename attachment |
rename the item |
unzip attachment abc.zip |
unzip item abc.zip (offered in zip file view), put contents into {extracted sister items} |
install attachment package.zip |
install the item (offered in zip file view) |
file attachment browser |
?? |
The old attachment: syntax should be killed and a converter should convert the markup (basically it is about replacing "attachment:" by "/"). -- ThomasWaldmann 2008-05-27 15:43:47
Notes
- remove unnecessary cross-accesses of internal object attributes (not very important but would be good before writing many backends)
- item.rename() can update item._name when the rename succeeds instead of the backend doing so
- _commit_item can be passed the new revision object instead of having to pull it out of item._uncommitted_revision, item._uncommitted_revision can be set to None by Item.commit/Item.rollback after those actions have succeeded
- revision._metadata need not be accessed by the memory backend, it can leave it at None, wait for _get_revision_metadata to be invoked and then store the dict into a different attribute
wiki-wide metadata/changelog
(Johannes)
Currently, renames and item creations are not logged anywhere, and thus, do not show up on RecentChanges. To fix this, I propose to add a new API call:
item_log()
which iterates the "item log" containing information about when a specific item was created/renamed (and from what to what). This information would be folded into the news() iterator as well, which already just provides similar information about revisions.
For wiki-wide metadata, one could allow accessing the backend as backend['meta'], with update/publish semantics like item metadata.