April 2006 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

Google Summer of Code ideas and mentors
by Ludovic Dubost 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hi, We have a first list of ideas for the Google Summer of Code here http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Projects/WebHome You should add additional ideas on this page. The more we have candidates that want to do a project on XWiki the more chance we have to get a high number of projects. We will then have to choose by taking into account the quality of the candidate and the importance of the sub-project for the XWiki Roadmap. Also, one thing that would help getting more project is having more mentors to help out the students. If any of you is interested in helping us out mentoring the students, please tell us so. We already have some experience mentoring. The mentoring job has to be pro-active, asking a lot what the student is doing, as the student usually don't tell much. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic

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xwiki Build Failed
by ludovic＠xwiki.org 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

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PDF generation for UTF-8 environments
by Michael Reinsch 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hello! The attached patch solves a problem in UTF-8 environments when creating PDFs. It also requires the attached fop.cfg.xml (goes into src/main/resources/). With that patch applied, PDFs can be generated in an UTF-8 environment, i.e. no longer exceptions while doing so. But the generated PDFs might not contain all characters. This depends on the font being used to generate the PDF. To make this work under all circumstances, one would need a font containing the complete UTF-8 character set. Unfortunately such fonts are not freely available. But for instance the DejaVu font (which is based on the free BitStream Vera font) would be an option, though CJK users would need to use another font. To switch between the different fonts, it is currently required to edit the xhtml2fo.xsl (the patch contains a comment which shows how to switch to a Japanese font, at least for normal text). Maybe using several xsl files, depending on the language settings of the page would be an option to select the correct font? -- Michael Reinsch <mreinsch(a)mandriva.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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jgroups errors in clustered setup
by alg0000＠yahoo.com 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

We have a number of xwiki servers set up in a clustered environment. Occasionally, we are not able to "bounce" our servers - we restart the servers one by one, and get many of the following error: ERRORS>> ERROR [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.ClientGmsImpl] <08:30:24,559> suspect() should not be invoked on an instance of org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.ClientGmsImpl <UpHandler (GMS)> We upgraded our jgroups to 2.2.9, and this has significantly reduced how often this happens, but it still does happen.When this happens, we need to bring down all the servers and restart. Has anyone encountered this issue ? What is the recommended version of jgroups and configuration ? Is there a recommendation for how to restart xwiki servers while achieving 24x7 uptime witgh a cluster ? Thank you in advance Andy

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xwiki part of the new Google summer of code
by jeremi joslin 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

Hi, Good news, Ludovic send me an email, XWiki will take part of the new Google summer of code. ( http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html ) We need to suggest some projects arround XWiki, so if you have some ideas, fill free to discuss about it. here is already some ideas : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Projects/WebHome Also if you want to help to mentor a project or participate, you are welcome. here is the mentor FAQ: http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html Jérémi -- Blog: http://www.jeremi.info LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1437724 Project Manager XWiki: http://www.xwiki.org skype: jeremi23 -- msn et gtalk : jeremi23(a)gmail.com

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commits rules
by jeremi joslin 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

hi all, just to remember some useful rules for commiting to the XWiki repository. * Before commiting something, please creates the jira task. * When you commit, refer to the task number, for example XWIKI-106, on your comment. Like this, the code will be added to the jira task. * Commit only one task at a time. Like this the diff is more readable, and it's more easy to check the code. thanks, Jérémi -- Blog: http://www.jeremi.info LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1437724 Project Manager XWiki: http://www.xwiki.org skype: jeremi23 -- msn et gtalk : jeremi23(a)gmail.com

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handling of messages in xwiki
by jeremi joslin 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi all, It's not possible in xwiki for the moment the core send message to the user for saying something like : "You attachment have been attached" or "You succesfully logged in" or replace exception with a readable message like: "your file is too big to be attached" what do you think about adding in the context 2 collections: * one message which contains messages like the first one. * the other one, which contains errors, like the second kind of message. After, we display this in the skin in a box under the top menu. I know message is already on the code, but it's never displayed, and i think we have to do the distinction between message and error. What do you think about this? Jérémi -- Blog: http://www.jeremi.info LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1437724 Project Manager XWiki: http://www.xwiki.org skype: jeremi23 -- msn et gtalk : jeremi23(a)gmail.com

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xwiki build.188 Build Successful
by ludovic＠xwiki.org 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

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by ludovic＠xwiki.org 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

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Preview not working in IE
by Craig Muth 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Has anyone experienced the "Preview" button not working in Internet Explorer. When you preview and then hit the back button your changes are whiped out. I've sent a couple emails about this in the past but have gotten no response. --Craig

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