[xwiki-dev] New XWiki Project: XWiki Enterprise Manager (XEM)

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

Hi XWikiers,

The XEM project consist in bringing together all the resources needed
by a xwiki farm (configuration files, plugins, default wikis, etc).
The XEM will allow users (or only admins depending on a configurable
option) to create new wikis from - at least - a wiki template.

It will need at least 3 wikis (XARs) :

- xem-administrator : wikis and users administration.
- xem-sheet : the current xwiki XAR.
- xem-template : a modified version of the current xwiki XAR which,
instead of containing all the default scripts, will make includes from
the xem-sheet. The use of nearly "empty shells" wikis will allow to
customize all the wikis from centralized modifications.

JIRA :
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XEM

xem-administrator features :
----------------------------

- Administration of multiple wikis in a single-screen
- Creation of a new wiki from a "wiki template" in a couple of clicks
-- unlimited number of wiki templates (any wiki can become one)
- Administration of all the members of those wikis in a single-screen
-- Groups manager (global+local)
-- Rights manager (global+local)
- Advanced usage statistics
- Administrator dashboard (displaying various infos from all the wikis)
- User dashboard (displaying various infos from user's wikis)
- New search interface (Lucene & XWiki search)

XEM Sources :
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- xwiki-plugins/multiwiki (createWiki, copyWiki, etc)
- xwiki-applications/wikis/xem-administrator (main wiki)
- xwiki-applications/wikis/xem-sheet (copy of the default wiki)
- xwiki-applications/wikis/xem-template (default template wiki)
- xwiki/web/xem (XEM webapp : xwiki.cfg with virtual mode activated)

While most of the developments are done on interfaces any help on
Velocity/HTML/CSS would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone has already worked with stats/graph plugin we'd be keen on
getting any help/snippets.

Thanks,
JV.

2007/5/26, Vincent Brousseau <vincent.brousseau at gmail.com>:
> I'm also interested in XEM, let me know if I can contribute anything.
>
> Vincent
>
> On 5/24/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> > Hi committers and everyone,
> >
> > Jean-Vincent is starting a new XWiki project called: XWiki Enterprise
> > Manager. The goal is to create an application to administer/manager a
> > XWiki farm (ie virtual wikis).
> >
> > This was initially a project we've done internally for customers (but
> > under an OSS license). We've decided to make it public so that
> > everyone can benefit from it. It's pretty raw at the moment and we're
> > starting from scratch. You're all most welcome to participate and
> > contribute to it.
> >
> > Jean-Vincent is going to send a more detailed email very soon about it.
> >
> > We're creating a separate JIRA project for that project. We'll create
> > some space on xwiki.org for it too a bit later on.
> >
> > Note that Nicolas Fournier (who is new to this community) has
> > expressed interest in helping us build XEM and he'll join Jean-
> > Vincent real soon.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> >
> >
> >
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