March 2013 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] [Flavor] Documentation Flavor
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, The proposal for Documentation Flavor can be found at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/DocumentationFlavor A Documentation Wiki is an information repository about a certain topic (product, service, etc.) It needs to provide means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. I've created only the Documentation Flavor and not the Knowledge Base Flavor because I consider the Documentation to be more strict than the other. The main difference between the two is the Workflow (http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/DocumentationFlavo…) which involves also custom Rights (http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/DocumentationFlavo…) and should provide documentation specific Export formats. Besides these differences, the Knowledge Base and Documentation are very similar: knowledge base encourage content collaboration in all stages, while Documentation only in the content gathering phase, becoming read-only after. I encourage you to take a look at the features and give your opinion. Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [Fun] Creating jira issues for failed tests automatically (bad idea IMO)
by Vincent Massol 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

http://www.maplesteve.com/2013/03/24/create-jira-issues-from-jenkins That's fun… :) I was wondering if this could help us be more proactive in fixing our tests (especially the flickering ones) or if it wasn't going to help at all and instead cause more troubles. The good part is that it creates new jira only for new tests that fail so it may not be that bad. The bad part is that if we have false positives we'll need to close those jira as won't fix thus leading to extra maintenance (even though we've excluded most if not all real false positives already). I'm actually worried about the case when someone commits an error that affects all tests and suddenly you have 600 tests failing and thus 600 new jiras created :) So while the idea seemed attractive, I think it could cause us more problems than advantages. Too bad because right now almost nobody in our team (except Marius) is fixing flickering functional tests and we need to have stable tests as the norm… (that being said the build is still failing in lots and lots of places as of now :( Even commons and platform are failing…). Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Allow simple users to choose from a menu of editors instead of forcing WYSIWYG.
by Caleb James DeLisle 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, The reasoning for this is because I have seen a number of users running in to problems with the lack of dropdown menu, giving instructions for fixing a problem is harder when they always begin with "edit the page then append ?editor=wiki to the URL". I think showing the menu of editors is not too overwhelming for new users whereas showing them internal documents is. This will also pave the way for more experimental editors such as realtime. WDYT? Caleb

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[xwiki-devs] [QA] Feedback for 5.0 M2
by Manuel Smeria 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, XWiki 5.0M2 is scheduled to be released on Monday according to the Roadmap<http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/WebHome> . Besides the full list of issues fixed for 5.0M2 and the "Automatic Paste Cleaning in WYSIWYG Editor"<http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki50M2#HAut…> feature, do you want something else tested as well ? Thanks, Manuel

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[xwiki-devs] XWikiDocument#get/setUser/Creator/ContentAuthorReference() and guest
by Thomas Mortagne 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi devs, Following http://markmail.org/message/snnlesexie4ox3i5 I would like to modify user related methods in XWikiDocument to behave like the what has been voted for XWikiContext and follow the same logic. As a reminder here it is: not logged in user (guest) reference is null. Plain and simple. The idea would be to do exactly the same thing than XWikiContext meaning that old String APIs continue to deal with "XWikiGuest" and do convertions for retro compatibility especially with existing databases. It will change the behavior of XWikiDocument#getUserReference() from external point of view so it's a breakage but we might actually fix more bugs than we create when thinking about codes like context.setUserRefererence(document.getAuthorReference()) or $context.userReference == $doc.authorReference which I'm sure we can find here and there. 5.0 and new right service is a good occasion for this improvement. WDYT ? Here is my +1 -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] [Reminder] BFD#13 today
by Thomas Mortagne 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Here is the filter: http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=12207 It's not because Vincent is not here that we can be lazy ;) -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] XWiki is applying for GSoC 2013. Proposals and mentors needed!
by Eduard Moraru 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello fellow XWiki community members, This year XWiki is planning to participate once more at Google's Summer of Code [1]. The organization registration period has already started today (18th of March) and the deadline is the 29th of March [2] (almost 2 weeks). 1. We need to provide by then a list of proposals and assign mentors for the students that are going to implement them. I would like to ask everybody that wants to participate as a mentor from the XWiki organization to review the proposals [3] list (we currently have 12 proposals) and add as many interesting proposals as possible. The proposals can be either new, or they can be revived from previous year proposals. Just navigate to the previous years, find the proposal you like and know about, go to its proposal page (click it) and press the "Clone to this year" link. Now you can assign yourself as lead for that project, update it's description if needed and wait for the student applications to start pouring :) 2. We also need to submit the actual application [4] of the XWiki organization to participate to the GSoC 2013 project so I would also like to ask you to review it so that we have a better chance of being selected into the program. 3. If you feel that you would like to help on improving XWiki's GSoC guides and application forms, please find tips for students [5] on XWiki's GSoC page, the student application form [6] and the lessons learned [7] from previous years participations. Thanks for your help, Eduard ---------- [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 [3] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/#HProposedProjects28… [4] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/OrganizationApplicat… [5] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/WebHome#HSuggestedwa… [6] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+… [7] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/LessonsLearned

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[xwiki-devs] Where is the Class Editor Wizard?
by markus.u.mueller 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Dear listers, I am new to XWiki and I am trying to get familiar with it. I started doing the FAQ tutorial (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorialManual) but got stuck pretty early. I cannot find the Class Editor Wizard. I use an administrator account but when I search for "XWikiClasses" I do not get any results. Directly going to XWiki.XWikiClasses does also not help, the page does not seem to exist. I use XWiki-enterprise 4.5 (xwiki-enterprise-installer-windows-4.5.exe) on Windows XP. Any hints appreciated, Markus

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[xwiki-devs] [xwiki-dev] How to add new action in application made with AppWithinMinute
by Arnaud bourree 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello, How to add new action in application made with AppWithinMinute? I've write entries import. I want to add "Import" action to WebHome page in addition to: Add new entry Edit application Delete application. Regards, Arnaud.

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[xwiki-devs] Nexus: Promotion Completed.
by Nexus Repository Manager 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

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