Xwiki.org change requests

Hello there

I did some micro contributions to the documentation @ xwiki.org and saved them as “Change Request” in the hope somebody validates my input.

This was 2 weeks ago. I’m wondering if anybody monitor’s xwiki.org for change requests?

Hi,

thanks for the ping: I forgot to enable notifications and since @elenicojocariu is very active on the Change Requests I didn’t pay attention that there were others :slight_smile:

I tried to answered the ones you created and I hope to not miss the future ones.

Great, thank you.

Apropos notifications: if there is any activity on the change requests, how can I get notified (for example on your reply to the $field change)?

You need to enable the change request notifications in your settings, and to ensure to follow the Change Request page you created.

OK, got it - the own change request is automatically followed, it appears. It might be nice that once a change request was posted, change request notifications are turned on automatically (like in the forum IIRC) or the user is requested to decide if notifications for change requests should be turned on or not.

It’s automatically followed because you probably have the automatic page watching, we’re just reusing the standard mechanism of XWiki here:

Honestly I’m not a big fan of automatically turning on the notifications on a user action, but yes proposing the user to activate them would be indeed interesting for discovery. Just not sure how I would do it, might be an interesting generic mechanism to study for onboarding users @tkrieck.

True, watched pages is set to the setting in the screenshot, now the question is, if a new reply to the change request module is a major modification … if this relates to “major” versions in the history, it is, as every reply/post generates a new major version. I’ll see once you reply to it, if I’ll get a new mail …

No this setting is for chosing whether the page will be automatically watched or not. And when you create a page (whether a normal page or a change request) it’s always a major modification. Then once the page is watched you will receive notifications based on your settings: so if it’s a change request and you enabled change request notification events, you’ll receive them all.

I agree, I was not sure on the individual replies though, as of the history of the change request page, every reply generate a new major version, so it should be covered.