Support saving pages representing a new view

Registered by Max Polk

The wiki will natively support saving proposed new versions of a page or pages into a "view," so that a change can be seen in normal operation and tested, prior to rolling it out for public consumption. Design a view so that a collection of page changes can be grouped together, and design a way for the view to be accepted or rolled back en masse.

This blueprint has been cancelled. Views will simply be new instances mapped to different urls, and a consistent capture of related information is automatically built in by cached copies of pages updated in the background.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Max Polk
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Max Polk
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Max Polk

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The main "public" view is the entire wiki actively used. To test a set of changes, save the page as a contributing version of a new view, say, "test-X". The public view still sees previous page versions. Continue to change various pages, saving each under "test-X". When accepting the changes, the public view is updated to point to the new versions of the pages.

Maybe the public page when edited shows "participating in test-X" to warn you that any change needs to be merged into the "test-X" view. Maybe for simplicity "test-X" pages become invalid once a public change occurs underneath, requiring merging to make it valid again.

The invalidation process is a simplification so more complex branching and merging don't overwhelm the simple notion of a wiki.

Since pages are written in a DSL, it is quite likely that easily mergeable "deltas" can be built into the DSL so that any change isn't just a "text diff" but rather a mergeable delta.

Rolling back a view will also generate "invalid" pages when changes occur after the original rollout, where merging of new changes to the public view.

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