Thanks for all your replies!
Taking in to account what you all have said, and after re-viewing past years projects like Sumana said I realized that maybe what was stopping me from having a clear understanding of the idea and how to sort it out was actually it's too wide scope.
Looking at other years project's made think about how important it is to well-define your project's reach and how it will interact with other components. On the other hand is also what Platonides says about everyone wanting to have "this" or "that" option able to be set globally across wikis, which is a never-ending discusion.
So I guess I'll be looking into something else for the time being. Thanks a million for the great feedback.
Jeremias.
2012/2/16 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
On 16/02/12 14:11, Jeremias Nuñez wrote:
When you say "extensive consultation" are you referring to the UI or to which preferences could be made global? I think we talked about this on
IRC
too but I don't quite remember.
I'd also appreciate if you could point me where I could start "diving
in",
so I can get a sense of how things were done.
Thanks again.
The problem is the social part. For instance, some people will want their skin to be global, while others will moan because they "need" a different one between two wikis.
It should be much easier with the "new" (3 yo) preferences system. Conceptually, I think the changes needed to support it are easy: instead of using the user preference or the wiki default if not available you would use the user preference, then the user global preference, and finally the wiki default.
The challenge will be at providing a suitable interface for preferences, setting explicit preferences (currently we just remove the user preference if the user chooses the default), switching between global and local preferences (I'd make the page for the global ones the default), etc.
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