January 2015 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Making XObjects work across languages
by Guillaume Lerouge 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hi guys, I met an issue recently on a project. We'd like to build an XWiki-based website that will be available in several languages. We'd like to use structured data, which means using XObjects. Unfortunately at the moment XObjects are not internationalized: they're available only in one language, even if a page exists in 2+ languages. A common workaround is to either duplicate all fields in the object (say, "type_FR" and "type_EN") or have 1 object per language, with a field handling the language property. In either way, custom sheets need to be developed to make it possible to modify the various languages of the page. There is also an issue with the search: in which language should the object's content be indexed? One solution would be to make it possible to have international languages handled directly in XWiki (the same way than the default title / content fields are handled now), but I'm not sure how much work that would take. WDYT? Guillaume

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Automation Achievement Page on xwiki.org
by vincent＠massol.net 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hi devs, We’re starting a new year and new development cycle (the 7.x one). It’s time to reflect back on what we did and what we wish to achieve and also what we wish to do better. I think it wouldn’t do any harm to the xwiki project that we continue automating stuff (more build/release process automation, more development automation, more documentation automation, more test writing automation, etc). Basically anything that makes us better at delivering the XWiki software. If you agree with this, I’d like to propose that we start filling a wiki page on xwiki.org dedicated to what we achieved. I’ve started such as page at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/AutomationAchievements (the idea will be to move it somewhere in dev.xwiki.org if this proposal is accepted). At the moment I’ve put only a single item that I remember we did on the automation topic but the idea is that each one of us (us = the xwiki community at large) updates this page when he/she implements some new automation stuff. The goal of this page is several: * show appreciation to whoever helped improve XWiki’s automation * realize that we’re doing work on automation and see how much we achieve in a year. And thus be able to compare year to year and see how we fare. * provides emulation to all of us to do even more in this domain WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki 7.0 and the 7.x cycle
by vincent＠massol.net 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi devs, This is exciting times as we’re starting a new cycle for XWiki: XWiki 7.x! :) Here are some proposals below that I have discussed with committers from XWiki SAS already. For all other committers (thinking about Denis, Sergiu, Clemens, Andreas or other), feel free to add other stuff you’d like to do in 7.0. Cycle Dates ============ I’d like to propose the following cycle dates: - 7.0: March (Feb-Mar ) - 7.1: May (Apr-May ) - 7.2: July (Jun-Jul) - 7.3: September (Aug-Sep) - 7.4: November (Oct-Nov ) This leaves us one month for adjustment, for the almost impossible possibility that we’d be late in one of these major releases :) XWiki 7.0 Dates =============== - 7.0M1: 9 Feb - 7.0M2: 2 march - 7.0RC1: 16 march - 7.0Final: 30 march Wiki 7.0 Content ================ - Improve upgrade tools - Improve DW - Dev: Marius - Continue performance improvements - Dev: Thomas - Flavor mechanism - Dev: Thomas - Notifications improvements (e.g. Immediate mail notif in watchlist + immediate notif in comment) - Dev: Edy - Full integration of new technologies (less, bootstrap) in XWiki so that they can be fully used for client projects - it can also be only documentation - Dev: Guillaume - Implement the “XWiki Core” strategy as defined in http://markmail.org/message/keo7cs6u3fuf676w - Dev: Vincent Some important JIRAs (several of them should be taken up when defining what to implement from the general list above): - Extension Manager add extension search should suggest only compatible versions - XWIKI-9920 - Sometimes rights changes don't apply without a server restart (confidential, FOR 6.4.x) - XWIKI-11355 - Add a simulation feature to the distribution wizard - XWIKI-11502 - Notify Wiki owners by email when users [request to] join their wiki - XWIKI-11096 - Support LESS in SSX objects - XWIKI-11394 - Presentation Office documents (.ppt files) aren't displayed with LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 - XWIKI-11611 - Know who has installed an extension and when - XWIKI-10027 - Add a reload button for changing the CAPTCHA message at registration - XWIKI-9879 - Do not display a very long title in the wiki's header - XWIKI-11234 - Remove the need for the "Finalize" button at the end of the process of wiki creation from template (FOR 6.4.x?) - XWIKI-11527 - Renaming a page changes the creation date - XWIKI-9425 - Exporting/Replaying the upgrade log - XWIKI-11504 XWIKI-11505 XWIKI-11074 Investigations: - Better WYSIWYG editor - CKEditor investigation (1 Week) - Marius - Better captcha module - Edy Let me know if there are any concerns. Thanks a lot -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#76
by Eduard Moraru 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi devs, Today is BFD#76: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status for the 1 year period is 61 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… Some of you have already started, cool! Here's the BFD#76 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13001 Thanks and enjoy your bug fixing day! -Eduard

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#77
by vincent＠massol.net 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hi devs, I think we’re all a bit tired of BFDs (at least I know I am) but I’ve just looked at the bug stats and they’re not good: * On 1 rolling year we’re behind by 77 bugs (we were at -60 not long ago so we’re loosing the battle), see http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… * Even on 1600 days we’re now loosing by 7 bugs, see http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Thus I believe we have little choice than to continue in an effort to contain and win back against bugs. Any other idea? So I’ve prepared the BFD77 dashboard here to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13090 Let’s try to improve the situation today! Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] how to manage versions are in xwiki?
by wafid 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hello; I want to know how to manage versions are in xwiki? linear or non-linear structure? can you explain me how if non-linear? Thank you in advance. wafid. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/how-to-manage-versions-are-in-xwiki-tp759… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 6.2.5 released
by Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 6.2.5. This version is mostly a stabilization release which fix many bugs we have discovered since XWiki 6.2.4. But it also brings some improvements on the screen-width-responsiveness of the livetable in Flamingo. You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download Make sure to review the release notes: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki625 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] CAPTCHA module investigation
by Eduard Moraru 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi devs, We have been getting reports recently of people getting a lot of SPAM in their public XWiki instances, even if they had the CAPTCHA module [1] enabled on their comments/registration pages. These past 2 days I`ve been investigating the current status of the CAPTCHA module and what is the state of the art in fighting SPAM. I have produced the following document [2] that I would like you to have a look at and tell me what you think and/or what is your experience with XWiki's CAPTCHA module and with fighting SPAM in general. TL;DR: I would like to propose that we move to Google's new NO CAPTHA reCAPTCHA as the default CAPTCHA solution and that we implement a configurable back-end that allows admins to easily switch between CAPTCHA engines/services. Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Captcha+Module [2] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CAPTCHAinvestigation70

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[xwiki-devs] Professional support update?
by vincent＠massol.net 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi, According to http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance I wonder if we shouldn’t update the following pages: - Download Feedback page at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DownloadCode/DownloadFeedback - support page: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport I can see 3 changes that could be required: 1) Maybe Espressto wants to add itself on those pages since Clemens is from that company. Since it fulfills our Governance rules, Clemens is free to add Espressto there if he wants to (if Espressto wants to). 2) Should we remove Kreablo (Andreas) since he’s not been active for several years now and fails our notion of Active Committer? 3) I’ve counted 9 active XWiki SAS committer (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/HallOfFame) There are 13 active XWiki SAS contributors in total though but 4 are not committers. So we should update the count I think. Note: we’re not clear on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance if we require Active Committership on the xwiki github org or on xwiki contrib. I feel that it should be on the xwiki github org. Do you agree to explain this on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance ? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Removing @Unstable annotations
by vincent＠massol.net 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi devs, I’ve created (and implemented) two JIRA issues to implementing automatic checking of our rule defined at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#H40Unsta… - http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-730 - http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-731 I’ve committed them which means the build is now failing on master and we need to fix it ASAP. To check locally just execute: mvn checkstyle:check Please all help in removing the @Unstable annotations that shouldn’t be there anymore. Let me know if you don’t agree! Thanks -Vincent

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