Hi everybody,
I was wondering in which XWiki subsystems the REST API is used in a direct way.
I know that it is used in different place but I don't have a clear vision.
Could you please tell me where are you using it?
Thanks,
Fabio
Hi all,
As many of you may know, 7 years ago, I created the XWiki Open-Source
software. A few years ago, especially when Vincent arrived, I took a
step back from development of the XWiki product to focus on developping
XWiki SAS which allows to support the XWiki development. I've
particularly spent my time making sure that the deployments of XWiki our
Customers have been doing are successfull. I've left the product
development work to committers who under the lead of Vincent have done
amazing work in the last few years. We have provided some product
marketing in addition through Guillaume's and lately Gregory's work
which allowed to bring some feedback from users and customers and also
bring a different less technical perspective to the XWiki Product
development. Cati also joined the team and allowed us to make huge steps
forward in product usability and design.
Now, as XWiki SAS's project implementation team is doing great work on
it's own, I've decided to involve myself more in the future of XWiki's
product. I'm now the new XWiki SAS 'Product Marketing' head which means
I will involve myself in community discussions about the product
features actively developped, investigated for future development as
well as in general discussions about the XWiki Software's future. I will
try to bring the knowledge that XWiki SAS's customer, project managers,
support team bring us from using XWiki in production environments to the
community so that we make better decisions, more focused on developments
that will allow to increase XWiki's success with end users. At XWiki SAS
we have already done a lot of work to organize this feedback so that we
know more things that XWiki SAS's developers and the XWiki community
should work on.
In the next few weeks you will therefore see me work on the
investigations of future features as well as work more closely with
developers whenever they feel the need on the features they implement
actively. I will also manage the different surveys we have done in the
past to gather feedback from our community. These surveys have still
been running on the xwiki.org web site although they are now quite
outdated. I will propose to review them and launch them again.
If users or developers have any feedback about XWiki, about what we
should work on in priority, please do send that feedback on the list
(preferably). Although we have a much bigger list of great ideas than
what we currently can achieve, you can help us on helping us select the
most important ones that will make a difference.
I would like to use this occasion to thank our great community of
developers and users who help the committers every day to make XWiki
better. We could not do this without all the suggestions, ideas, patches
that our community provides.
Thanks
Ludovic
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XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
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Hi guys,
In order to fix http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5691 and a few
related bugs I had to refactor the way macros are displayed inside the
rich text area of the WYSIWYG content editor. Along with this I
introduced a few improvements in the way the user interacts with macros.
Here's a list of changes:
* macros are displayed now 100% like in view mode
* macros that have output are emphasized only when hovered or selected
* you can navigate the macro output with the arrow keys
* you can copy content from the macro output
* press Enter to edit macro
* press Space to toggle between collapsed and expanded state
* Ctrl+Shift+R reloads the macros
* Ctrl+Shift+E expands all/selected macros
* Ctrl+Shift+C collapses all/selected macros
* Ctrl+Shift+M to open the insert macro wizard
Known issues that I'd like to fix for 3.0 final:
* you can cut text from macro output
* you can drag text into/from macro output
* placing the caret before/after a macro is still tricky
Please take a look and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Marius
Hi devs and everyone,
Emilie has proposed the following content to be added to the Download page (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download):
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/TextDownload
The idea is twofold:
1) to get feedback about what people think about our software.
2) some people who download the XWiki software from xwiki.org don't know that XWiki SAS has a commercial offerings and could be interested by it
The pros for the community are:
1) XWiki SAS will publish back the result of the feedback it receives from the download form which will allow us to fine tune and improve the software
2) XWiki SAS could get more business (from people who want to buy support, dev work, hosting, etc) which will mean accrued budget for paying developers and resources to work on the XWiki project
Note 1: the form would be of course optional
Note 2: in the future I'd like to see a not for profit foundation to handle xwiki.org, the xwiki open source project, donations, etc. When this happens we could elect from member for the foundation and have the feedback form sent to that foundation for example, with members of the foundation having access to the data (for example).
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent Massol, acting as both CTO of XWiki SAS and XWiki open source developer
Hi,
Since we're starting the 3.0 cycle I think it's time to move the web modules to use the org.xwiki groupId and package names.
It's not really normal for an open source project such as our to use the package of a company (and that of a company that doesn't exist anymore... xpertnet has been replaced by XWiki SAS a few years ago) and I don't think moving web modules to that package/groupid is going to cause any important problems to anyone.
Here's my +1
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi devs,
I just noticed that we have two forms for copying a document:
Space/Page?xpage=copy
and
XWiki/CopyDocument?sourcedoc=Space.Page
copy.vm has been recently updated to follow the vertical form layout
standard and its code was also cleaned. XWiki.CopyDocument wasn't
updated and I find its code a bit buggy.
Maintaining both of them is wrong so I propose to remove
XWiki.CopyDocument from the XE xar and update LiveTableResultsMacros to
use xpage=copy for the copy link in the action column (I couldn't find
any other usages).
I'd like to do this asap.
Thanks,
Marius
Hi,
I took the liberty to update a bit the roadmap page
http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Roadmap
to add links to the Design page or the JIRA page when they existed.
I also added the Investigations with links in the page.
I would like to propose that we increase a bit the visibility on the
development of the features.
What I would like to suggest is that:
All major feature in development or investigations gets a "Design" page
and these pages are linked from the Roadmap page.
The Design page should include at least:
- the use cases that are being implemented
- a link to the JIRA issue if it exists.
- a link to the UI design proposal. I would also like to suggest that
the UI design proposal are moved from myxwiki.org to xwiki.org either on
their own wiki or on the dev wiki.
- a design document which explains the objetives and implementation
strategy (this should be reviewed by the community through the mailing list)
- and most importantly an action plan with priorities and status on each
element of the action plan (it can list the use cases that are first
being implemented or other actions necessary to implement)
- the action plan should be updated after each Milestone release.
- we should also update the Roadmap page when we know a feature is at
risk of not making the final release.
We already have a lot of that sometimes a bit disorganized. The
objective and design is often in a mail thread. It would be better if
the last status is on the Wiki.
But more importantly what is more missing is the implementation
strategy, the action plan with the priorities and the current status.
In order to help out prioritizing development based on what we feel the
users more need we need the splitting of priorities and the status.
This is particularly important for large features that have a big impact
and a lot of potential user interactions (extension manager, dashboards,
workspaces)
Ludovic
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Ludovic Dubost
Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/
XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
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