Site management

[margondicco]

Rationale

No functional requirement for meeds.

In general terms, this MIP allows sites to be managed via an administration function and new sites to be created in a module outside the meeds package.

Note: avoid describing the solution here.

1. Technical Requirements

Security

The new functionalities will be accessible by administrators.

Extensibility

We will add the possibility to inject new actions implemented from other addons into Space administration portlet using the extension registry mechanism.

Feature Flags

Property Name	Default Value	Target Audience	Functional Behaviour
exo.feature.newSiteManagement.enabled	true (for eXo), false (for Meeds)	users	enable/disable the new site management entry in administration menu

This feature flag will be disabled by default for Meeds, so the new site management entry will not be displayed for Meeds package.

2. Software Architecture

Services & processing

• We will implement EditPortalLayout action listener for UIWorkingWorkspace in order to let editing portal site layout by interface.
• We will refactor findSites method of PortalImpl service in order to ignore empty sites.

Data and persistence

• We will change the character set of description column of PORTAL_SITES table to utf8mb4 in order to support emojis insertion.

[srenault-meeds]

go func

[azayati]

@boubaker We need a go tech on this MIP. PRs ready for review & validation:

• https://github.com/Meeds-io/social/pull/2748
• https://github.com/Meeds-io/gatein-portal/pull/648

[boubaker]

@boubaker We need a go tech on this MIP.

Yep, in normal case, the Tech review is asked before starting real development to be able to give feedback on concepts. Go Tech ok.

[boubaker]

• gatein-portal PR approved (apparently, auto merge applied on it, which is not recommended)
• social PR commented

[boubaker]

All PRs approved, thanks @azayati .