7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
1:20 a.m.
Andreas Schaefer wrote:
Well, I started my first steps in open-source back when Richard Oeberg
was still working on JBoss. So I am used not to give up too early, on
the other hand I have some much to do including 4 kids that sometimes
I just cannot afford to spend days after days on something just for fun.
On the other hand I really think that XWiki needs a 1/2 hour primer
that explains how to install it, how to do basic configuration and how
to customize it. I slowly see the hidden features of XWiki but I can
imagine that for many that hurdle is too high and so they give up
early.
See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-392 , this is planned. It's
more a user getting started guide, we'd probably need to add some more
administration information to it.
Hi Sergiu
Feel free to play with it.
> Actually there is already one: XABLOG-22
You are assigned to this problem. If you did not start working on this
I would like to get my hands dirty here. >>>
Yes. You need to go to
>>> http://madplanet.com/bin/edit/Blog/RssCode?editor=wiki and
>>> replace the
>>> content at line 113:
>>>
>>> <title>$title</title> -> replace $title with the content of
your
>>> choice
>>>
>>> then save the page. It's no a perfect solution but it will work in
>>> your
>>> case.
>> No this is not the right way. You go to the blog home page and edit
>> objects. Then change the title.
> I tried Guillaume's link above but got an 404.
Actually I figured out that the 'xwiki' context was missing.
Thanks. I
think slowing I am getting the hang of it on how to use
XWiki.
The first steps are always the hardest. Thanks for not giving up
easily. I was playing around with Liferay for a while and it
is easy to
get started and to bring a web site to life. But then many of their
features are so limited like Blog, Wiki, Content Management that I
stopped using it. That said I would love if XWiki could distribute a
Version bundled with Jetty and a basic configuration already
installed. Even yesterday when I started to push XWiki to the
production server I couldn't remember why I couldn't login until I
click on the Administrator button (top right) where I finally was
redirected to the Import page.
Such a bundle together with a short introduction to the XWiki
environment would help many users to go over the initial hump where
the start to appreciate XWiki a lot.
We have such a bundle, the default distribution package consists of
XWiki + Jetty + HSQLDB. It is very easy to use (we even have a .jar
installer for all the platforms, and a .exe for Windows), and many users
appreciated this package for its ease of use compared to the
installation instructions for other wikis. The problem with it is that
it is not meant for production use, so sooner or later a sysadmin will
have to get his hands dirty with the war and the
installation/administration documentation.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/