January 2011 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Use "colortheme" for the home dashboard by default
by Vincent Massol 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi devs, I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons: 1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Optional Contact Form in the download page
by Vincent Massol 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

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

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Proposal] XWikiSyntax Page
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hi, This is a proposal for compacting the way we show XWiki Syntaxes http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SyntaxExperiments Feedback is welcomed. Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] Remove old branches from SVN
by Vincent Massol 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi, Just a notice that I'll remove the following branches from jira since we (open source xwiki developers) only support 2 branches (trunk + latest stable): • xwiki-core-1.5-curriki/ • xwiki-core-1.8/ • xwiki-core-1.9/ • xwiki-core-2.1/ • xwiki-core-2.2/ • xwiki-core-2.3/ • xwiki-core-2.4/ Please shout quickly if you have a good reason to keep one of these (also note that they'll always be in the svn history). Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Community] We need a wiki and volunteers for implementing the new XWiki.org
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi, Would be very nice to have a development wiki in order to get things going on the new XWiki.org proposal: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgProposal2 Maybe Vincent can help with this? :) Since the redesign is quite big and lots of spaces|panels|styles need to be changed, morphing the current xwiki.org on the go would be quite difficult. So, having the development wiki would be much easier to work decentralized on different parts of it when people have time. There are lot of areas of the proposal that are not covered and would be really great to receive proposals and help from other members of the community. Also the implementation needs volunteers :) so any help is appreciated. We will also use the new xwiki.org logo proposed by the community, so having all this ideas come together and be put into action is very exciting. Thanks for the support, Caty Resources: - Original Proposal mail: http://markmail.org/message/4erqdhwuzvmtts6p - Logo Challenge mail: http://markmail.org/thread/bze35tdm4iojnafa

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New module: xwiki-resources
by Vincent Massol 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi devs, While designing the xwiki-action and xwiki-url modules I've realized that we need a general way to represent an xwiki resource and an action on that resource. This will allow every resource in XWiki to be addressable and offer a generic action mechanism. What is an xwiki resource? ===================== Examples: * an Entity (Document, XObject, XProperty, Attachment, etc) * A Page (i.e. an Entity rendered with a skin) * a resource file on the filesystem (image, css, js, icon, etc) * something on which a REST call will operate (which may or may not be an Entity) Note that a resource has a type, a reference and optional generic parameters. It's very much similar to a URI in the JDK but represented differently. What is an action done on a resource? ===================== Examples: * For an Entity: view it in XHTML (or in any other syntax) * For an Entity: view it with the skin applied, in XHTML (or in any other syntax) * Generate a URL for it * Create a link to it * For an Entity: Create it, modify it, delete it Where would it be used: ===================== Examples: * To transform any XWiki URL into a resource object. Any XWiki URL would be transformed internally into a resource. Note: The current XWikiURL class located in the xwiki-url module would disappear * In the Rendering to represent the reference of a link or an image. Ex: [[label>>reference]]. We currently have a ResourceReference class that would be removed and replaced by the new generic resource class. * More generically Resource and Resource Actions will be used at entry points of XWiki and internally XWiki will only manipulate Resources. String representation: ===================== <resource type>:<action>:<resource reference> Examples: ===================== * view a document with skin applied page:view:wiki:space1.space2.page <==> ViewAction * view a document entity:view:wiki:space1.space2.page params: context=new <==> No equiv or {{include document="wiki:space1.space2.page" context="new"/}} ex: link to attachment entity:link:wiki:[email protected] <==> [[attach:wiki:[email protected]]] ex: link to a document entity:link:wiki:space1.space2.page <==> [[doc:wiki:space1.space2.page]] ex: view icon icon:view:accept <==> image:icon:accept ex: view image stored in document entity:view:wiki:[email protected] <==> image:doc:wiki:[email protected] ex: view image located at external URL url:view:http://server/my.png <==> image:url:http://server/my.png API === * ResourceReference * ResourceAction (extends ResourceReference by adding an action field) * ResourceReferenceSerializer * ResourceReferenceResolver * ResourceExecutor(ResourceReference). Hint = <executor type>/<resource type>/<resource action> Example: View "entity:view:wiki:[email protected]" in XHTML Algorithm: - lookup ResourceExecutor (hint = "xhtml/entity/view") - cast ref = ResourceReference.getReference() to EntityReference - if ref.type == ATTACHMENT - get attachment URL => <img src="..../my.png"/> Example: Generate URL for "entity:view:wiki:[email protected]" Algorithm: - lookup ResourceExecutor (hint = "url/entity/view") - cast ref = ResourceReference.getReference() to EntityReference => http://wiki/xwiki/bin/view/space/page/my.png OR simply: ResourceExecutor(ResourceAction). Hint = <executor type> ex: "xhtml", "url", etc. And it's up to the executor to have sub components for the various actions, resource types.... Conclusion =========== The API is not completely finished and I'd need to explore it (ie start implementing it) to refine it. Right now I'd just like to discuss whether you see the idea as interesting and whether I should start spending some time working on it. I'll post refinements as I progress. Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] [Wiki3.0] Workspaces
by Eduard Moraru 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi devs, Adding the notion of Workspaces is a feature required by the Wiki3.0 ( http://wiki30.xwikisas.com ) research project that XWiki is currently involved in. To read the proposal and several use cases, please see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/Workspaces Your feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Eduard Moraru

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[xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Required right meta data in pages that needs it
by Jerome Velociter 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi developers, I've setup and worked on a couple of wiki farms recently, and my feedback is that the PR issue has become for me a major PITA. It's worst than before, because we've introduced a lot of pages that requires it : annotations style and script, plus the wiki macros for activity, tag cloud, space, etc. (OK, it's not really PR, it's edit right of the last person who did edit it, but it's the same issue mostly : you need to have it saved by someone with sufficient rights). Importing not as back-up (meaning all pages imported from the XAR are saved by the user doing the import) is not sufficient answer, for several reason : * User might not have programming rights * When user has programming rights, it's a BAD practice in terms of security (it means every page of the wiki initially has the PR right OK) * Wiki creation is also done by template wiki copy, which is not covered by this * This problem is not just an import/creation problem, we need generally a way to know which pages require PR, and which are missing this PR (users can be deleted, their rights can change, etc.). OK, that looks like sufficient complaining :) Here what I propose, tell me what you think : 1. We define a XWiki class, like XWiki.RequiredRightClass, with a field that describe the required right the user saving the document must have for it to behave properly (for example it will be "edit" for wiki macros with a "wiki" scope, and "programming" for pages that uses privileged APIs, or JSR scripts, or always use SSX, etc.) 2. We make a simple UI (for example in the administration section of the admin app) that list all of them, and their current status. Plus a button to fix the status if there is something to fix (a missing PR for example) and if the user seeing the page has the required rights of course. That's what I propose for now. In the future, we could imagine that : 3. Programming right can only be granted on a page that requires it explicitly. This would be a non-backward compatible change. Let me know what you think. If we agree I volunteer to implement this in 3.0 M2. Jerome.

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[xwiki-devs] Myxwiki.org farm performance, when are we full?
by Vincent Massol 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi devs, We're accepting new wikis on myxwiki.org as requests come in but we already have 110 wikis created on it. When do we know we shouldn't accept new wiki creation on that JVM because it's degrading performances too much? Do we have tool to monitor wiki activity and publish on a page which wikis are using the most resources? Do we have tools to display response time stats and see how they evolve over time? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Code responsible for loading/unloading jars
by coldserenity 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hello, Where can I find code responsible for loading/unloading jars? It looks like http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-extension/ branch with code for extension manager (where I planned to start the search from) has moved somewhere. Thus asking for a hint. A little background. Reason for request is that I'll probably try borrowing this component for use in our project . The library we were using ( http://jcloader.sourceforge.net/ ) is LGPL v3 which is not applicable for our business model anymore (LGPLs of earlier versions still apply) thus looking for something similar. Regards, Roman -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Code-responsible-for-loading-unloading-ja… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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