Hello again,
Following my previous email, here is a first draft proposition about
the visual redesign of the suggest widget.
Currently the widget style is pretty off the colibri skin. A bit
better with toucan, but not really ideal either.
I propose we move to a simpler, lighter design, that make uses of
Color Themes. You can find a first proposal with two variants (that
you can test live) on the incubator :
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SuggestRedesignPro…
Note that this mail concerns only the first part of the document for
now : suggest with items without description (items with description
are not supported yet, I'll propose them later on).
Let me know what you think, and if you agree with the overall
direction. Then we can discuss the tiny bits.
Jerome.
Hi devs,
It's been two weeks since the release of 2.5, and there have been some
critical and not so critical bugfixes since. Most notably:
- images no longer appear in documents imported from office documents
- PDF styling was completely broken, now it has been greatly improved
See the full list of fixed issues here:
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=p…
Does anybody want to commit something else?
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi everyone,
Sergiu started mentioning the idea of a XE 3.0 when we defined the XE 2.6 roadmap. We need a more general agreement that we want a XE 3.0 and how to reach it.
As Sergiu I believe we need a XE 3.0 ASAP for the following reasons:
- it's been a bit more than 1 year since the XE 2.0 release and I feel it's good to have one major release every year
- we've added **lots** of features since XE 2.0. Check http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotes to get a feeling
- it's good for open source marketing
Before being able to release XE 3.0 I think:
- XE 2.6 is already planned for the 18th of November (with "mail this page" and "recent activity" features + icon/emoticon and wikiword support that was sneaked in surreptitiously)
- We should have a XE 2.7 release (1 month duration, ie leading us to the 18th of December) to finish started stuff:
-- Finish the Gadget integration since it's been started already and it's important. That said I'd actually be ok to not finish it if we think it's too much to release XE 3.0 quickly according to the dates below. Anca to tell us if it's possible in the timeframe.
-- First working extension manager that can be used to install XARs (replaces the old Packager on the back end side). Thomas to tell us if it's possible in the timeframe.
-- Recent Activity with apps sending events (XE 2.6 will already have a good part of it)
-- UI finishing touches
-- Some additional Security and Performance improvements if possible
-- etc (add what you'd like to see absolutely here - it should be work already started as much as possible and no new stuff)
- Release XE 3.0 one month after the XE 2.7 release, ie around 18th of January - ie end of January 2011)
Very important: XE 3.0 should be a maturation/conclusion release, i.e. concluding all the work started in the 2.x series (same as what we did for XE 2.0). It shouldn't be seen as revolutionary stuff that we should add from now on since it'll take a year more before those can be fully stabilized and we would loose the window of opportunity of doing a major release now.
Note: We shouldn't try to cram too much things in since that'll extend the lead time to release XE 3.0 and we'll loose the stabilization effect.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi,
I'm summarizing some idea I've had about some tools to help the release process:
Idea 1: Create a semi-automated Release Plan page on xwiki.org
===================================================
* Read the POM from http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/enterprise/trunk/distribution/jetty/hsql… (using aether)
* Find all transitive dependencies (using aether)
* For each dep:
** Read its POM
** Read the version from the pom, remove the SNAPSHOT part
** Read the JIRA URL from the pom
** Find the list of issues in jira with a fixfor equal to the read version
** If there are not closed issue display a warning message
** Display the list of issues found
** Read the SVN info from the POM to find the svn tag URL (using svnkit for example)
** With the version build a full URL
** Get the svn revision number of the last commit for that URL
** Do a svn log on trunk/ to find all commits since the last release
** Display them
This should give a Release Plan Dashboard allowing the releaser to see at a glance what should be released, saving him the work to:
- find all deps
- find which modules have been modified and needs to be released
Idea 2: Create a Release application on dev.xwiki.org
==========================================
* A very simple application with a home listing all past releases that have been done already + a create new release button
* When you press that create button it creates a new release page, copying a template page which has the release steps
* Use the todo macro/application to list all the steps to be performed in the release, allowing the release to tick them visually as he progresses through the release (it's important to be able to tick a task in view mode - if we don't have this feature in an existing todo/task macro then develop it).
WDYT? Would that help the release process? Any other ideas.?
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi,
To be discussed but I'd rather we call the macro "activity" for several reasons:
- it's shorter and easier to use (same reasoning as "avatar" vs "uservatar" macro)
- it's more generic
- we could want to add a parameter in the future that gives the time span (and it doesn't have specifically to be recent)
Thanks
-Vincent
On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, evalica (SVN) wrote:
> Author: evalica
> Date: 2010-11-02 18:13:48 +0100 (Tue, 02 Nov 2010)
> New Revision: 32334
>
> Modified:
> enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/Dashboard.xml
> enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/RecentActivity.xml
> Log:
> XE-736: Rename Main.RecentChanges to Main.RecentActivity to reflect the new implementation
> - Changed macro name from recentchanges to recentactivity
>
> Modified: enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/Dashboard.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/Dashboard.xml 2010-11-02 17:02:56 UTC (rev 32333)
> +++ enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/Dashboard.xml 2010-11-02 17:13:48 UTC (rev 32334)
> @@ -217,12 +217,12 @@
> = $msg.get("xe.dashboard.wiki.recentactivity") =
> #else
> = $msg.get("xe.dashboard.space.recentactivity", [$doc.space]) =
> - ## Set variables to limit recent changes to the current space and 15 items.
> + ## Set variables to limit recent activity to the current space and 15 items.
> #set ($rcSpace = $doc.space)
> #set ($rcChangesNb = 15)
> #end
>
> - {{recentchanges space="$!rcSpace" changesNb="$!rcChangesNb" /}}
> + {{recentactivity space="$!rcSpace" changesNb="$!rcChangesNb" /}}
>
> )))
> )))
>
> Modified: enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/RecentActivity.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/RecentActivity.xml 2010-11-02 17:02:56 UTC (rev 32333)
> +++ enterprise/trunk/wiki/src/main/resources/Main/RecentActivity.xml 2010-11-02 17:13:48 UTC (rev 32334)
> @@ -1184,13 +1184,13 @@
> <defaultCategory>Content</defaultCategory>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Displays the recent changes in this wiki or in the passed space, if any.</description>
> +<description>Displays the recent activity in this wiki or in the passed space, if any.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<id>recentchanges</id>
> +<id>recentactivity</id>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<name>Recent Changes</name>
> +<name>Recent Activity</name>
> </property>
> <property>
> <supportsInlineMode>0</supportsInlineMode>
> @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@
> <defaultValue>true</defaultValue>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Whether to show differences for the items in the changes list or not.</description>
> +<description>Whether to show differences for the items in the activity list or not.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> <mandatory>0</mandatory>
> @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@
> <defaultValue>true</defaultValue>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Whether to show changes rss links or not.</description>
> +<description>Whether to show activity rss links or not.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> <mandatory>0</mandatory>
> @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@
> <defaultValue>30</defaultValue>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Number of changes to show.</description>
> +<description>Number of activity to show.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> <mandatory>0</mandatory>
> @@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@
> <defaultValue></defaultValue>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Comma separated list of tags to display changes for.</description>
> +<description>Comma separated list of tags to display activity for.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> <mandatory>0</mandatory>
> @@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@
> <defaultValue></defaultValue>
> </property>
> <property>
> -<description>Comma separated list of spaces to display the recent changes for.</description>
> +<description>Comma separated list of spaces to display the recent activity for.</description>
> </property>
> <property>
> <mandatory>0</mandatory>
> @@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@
> </object>
> <content>{{velocity}}
> ##
> -## Recent changes.
> +## Recent Activity
> ##
> ## Optional parameters :
> ##
> @@ -1671,9 +1671,9 @@
> ## Note that HTTP parameters supercede velocity set variables.
> ##
> ## - rcShowRss (String set to "true" or "false"): show RSS at the bottom of the list.
> -## - rcSpace (List of string[s]): restrict recent changes retrieval to pages within the given space.
> -## - rcTag (List of string[s]): restrict recent changes retrieval to pages with the given tag.
> -## - rcAuthor (List of string[s]): restrict recent changes retrieval to pages with the given author.
> +## - rcSpace (List of string[s]): restrict recent activity retrieval to pages within the given space.
> +## - rcTag (List of string[s]): restrict recent activity retrieval to pages with the given tag.
> +## - rcAuthor (List of string[s]): restrict recent activity retrieval to pages with the given author.
> ## - rcChangesNb (String set to a numerical value): number of pages to display recent activity.
> ## - rcPagercPageEventsNo (String set to a numerical value): number of activity events displayed for each page.
> ##
> @@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@
> #end
> #end
> ## pass the variables from the velocity context
> -{{recentchanges #if($rcShowRss) showRss="$rcShowRss" #end
> +{{recentactivity #if($rcShowRss) showRss="$rcShowRss" #end
> #if($rcChangesNb) changesNb="$rcChangesNb" #end
> #if($rcPagercPageEventsNb) changesNb="$rcPagercPageEventsNb" #end
> #if($rcSpaceString) space="$rcSpaceString" #end
Hi devs,
I've been working on http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-721 and it's
done on my local. This is the recent changes macro based on the current
implementation (not the activity stream one), but the idea is that we'll
rewrite it to display recent activity in the future. I will commit it
for the moment, in the 2.6 trunk, as is, but I would like to discuss
here the name of the macro and its parameters:
Macro name:
recentchanges, changes, activity, recentactivity
Parameters:
* rss link should be shown at the bottom of the changes table (boolean):
showRss, rss
* minor changes are shown or not (boolean, default false): showMinor, minor
* shows "see modifications" link next to entries (boolean, default
true): showDiff, showDifferences, diff, differences
* number of changes to show (number, 0 means "all", defaults to 30):
changesNb, changesCount, number, count, limit
* tags of documents to show chages for (comma separated list): tag, tags
* spaces of documents to show changes for (comma separated list): space,
spaces
* authors of documents to show changes for (comma separated list):
author, authors
Note that the types cannot be enforced since it's a wiki macro, I put
them there just for orientation.
I'd go for
activity rss minor diff count tags spaces authors .
WDYT?
Thanks,
Anca
Hi,
I'd like to include xwiki/2.1 in the list of available syntaxes by default for 2.6RC1.
Of course the default syntax remains xwiki/2.0.
The rationale is:
* Get people to know it exist and try it out as early as possible to provide feedback
Note that it's marked (experimental) in the syntax combo box list so it should be enough to let people know about its status.
Here's my +1
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
Hello everyone,
As I said in my answer to Vincent's mail about our roadmap leading to
XWiki 3.0, I would like to include in this path some improvements to
the Ajax Suggest widget, as well as a new high level feature : the
"livesearch" (or whatever we will end up calling it) that provides
dynamically search results "as you type" in the search box - and that
uses those suggest widget improvements.
I've started a design document at
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/SuggestImprovmentsAndDynamicSear…
It includes some more details about the livesearch thing, including a
breakdown plan with releases targets.
Here is how I see it :
* Redesign of the Ajax Suggest widget : 2.6 RC 2 (Note : this will be
mostly a visual re-design for a start, I'm not planning on rewriting
the widget from scratch - though some refactoring will be needed).
* Capability for the suggest to display multiple groups of typed items
(with icon and description) 2.6 RC 2
* Dynamic search (the "live search") : in the 2.7 cycle. I think it is
too early to break this feature down in the releases of the 2.7 cycle.
My +1 to have this new feature in 3.0, and to start the suggest widget
improvements in 2.6.
WDYT ?
Note, I have started working with Caty on a suggest widget redesign
proposal, I will send a mail about it very soon.
Cheers,
Jerome.