[GSoC2009] XML Difference for Lenya

[Lungu Cristian <lu...@yahoo.com>]

Hello everyone,

My name is Cristian Lungu and I'm a student in Computer Science,
at the Technical University Cluj, Romania. I'm sorry if this emails
comes as a surprise to you and hope it didn't disturbed you from your
work. 
I have been playing with Lenya
for some time(as a common user) and this years GSoC boosted my interest at helping to
develop it. I saw the idea proposed on "The Apache Software Foundation"
web page and as I read it seemed an excellent improvement to Lenya. I
wanted to talk to you about some technical details regarding this. I
believe a god place to be able to do a diff is at the Revision menu of
each page but also a nice feature would be that the owner (and maybe
approval authority) could visualize at login or at demand all the
documents modified in the last session. This would allow for an easier
way in reviewing the changes, eliminating the need for the reviewer to
be notified. He would have a menu that would show him the last changes
and would allow for an instant comparison and approval. 
I
also believe that a good feature would be to add some way in specifying
some user themes that would further personalize the aspect of the web
pages created (something familiar to the WordPress Themes).
I would greatly appreciate if you would share your opinions with me about this and give me some advices. 

Thank you for all your time and effort.
Yours truly,
Cristian Lungu 


      

Re: [GSoC2009] XML Difference for Lenya

[Richard Frovarp <rf...@apache.org>]

Lungu Cristian wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Cristian Lungu and I'm a student in Computer Science, at 
> the Technical University Cluj, Romania. I'm sorry if this emails comes 
> as a surprise to you and hope it didn't disturbed you from your work.
>
Thank you for your interest.
> I have been playing with Lenya for some time(as a common user) and 
> this years GSoC boosted my interest at helping to develop it. I saw 
> the idea proposed on "The Apache Software Foundation" web page and as 
> I read it seemed an excellent improvement to Lenya. I wanted to talk 
> to you about some technical details regarding this. I believe a god 
> place to be able to do a diff is at the Revision menu of each page but 
> also a nice feature would be that the owner (and maybe approval 
> authority) could visualize at login or at demand all the documents 
> modified in the last session. This would allow for an easier way in 
> reviewing the changes, eliminating the need for the reviewer to be 
> notified. He would have a menu that would show him the last changes 
> and would allow for an instant comparison and approval.
>
This could be useful. The option of presenting the difference between 
the live version and the submitted version would be an important option 
to have as well.
> I also believe that a good feature would be to add some way in 
> specifying some user themes that would further personalize the aspect 
> of the web pages created (something familiar to the WordPress Themes).
>
I am familiar with WP, as at my last job I deployed WPMU. I do think 
that the ability for individual pages to setup their theme, does go 
against the consistency that a CMS provides for a site as a whole. One 
thing we have discussed in the past is allowing the CSS and XSLT to be 
edited from within the interface. This in fact would make a great GSoC 
proposal, however it probably is too late for that.

> I would greatly appreciate if you would share your opinions with me 
> about this and give me some advices.
>
> Thank you for all your time and effort.
> Yours truly,
> Cristian Lungu
>
>
I don't see a proposal up on the GSoC site, so I'm not entirely sure 
what all of your plans are.

Richard

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