October 2015 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Repository request for a "Rights UI Simplifier"
by vincent＠massol.net 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi Paul, On 21 Oct 2015 at 12:05:10, Paul Pantiru ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hi, > > Some users consider the rights manager to be a bit to complex, so the purpose of this extension is to offer an alternative (simplified, even though it will have less options), while still keeping access to the more advanced (i.e. the default ui). While the concept for the new ui is still subjected to change, it will probably be basted on dropdown menus with predefined options like (view, view edit and comment etc.). > > Regarding the name, we will stick to "Rights UI Simplifier" and for the repo, unless someone proposes a better prefix than application, we will stick to "application-rightsui-simplifier". > Sorry about the private jira reference. So the idea is not to simply the existing Right UI but to add another UI. And I guess you’ll implement it as wiki pages. So I propose instead: "application-simplerights" I don’t think we need UI in the app name since that’s implied already. And I don’t think we need the “ier” suffix since it’s about providing a new UI and not making modifications to the existing one. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Paul > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:51 PM, [email protected](mailto:[email protected]) wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > On 20 Oct 2015 at 14:05:30, Paul Pantiru ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])(mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > Hello devs, > > > > > > I would like a repository on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib for the > > > extension I'm working on. The purpose of this is to make a simplified UI > > > for the rights manager, based on a client project (The jira issue for this > > > would be https://jira.xwikisas.com/browse/MUT-8 ). > > > > Errr… You’re posting on a public mailing list and you’re referencing some company-private and protected JIRA issue… :) > > > > > The name of the repo should be something on the lines of > > > "application-rightsui-simplifier", however I feel that this is not a very > > > appropriate name, since is not necessary an application, but a ui modifier > > > of the rights manager, so any input on the name would be very much > > > appreciated. > > > > What is your extension doing exactly? How does it plug into XWiki? > > > > > I would also like a jira project for this app. > > > > I can create this for you once we define the proper name. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > Thanks, > > > Paul Panțiru > > >

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib][Proposal] XWebIDE - Logical tree view
by Yann Flory 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hello devs, Thank you for your participation in the ranking of XWebIDE features, it was very helpful to determine the next steps. The three most important features, based on the results, were: - (TABS) Ability to use several tabs in the Web IDE (Done) - (LOGICAL_TREE) Ability to switch to a Logical tree view of all the elements of an application (sheets, JSX, SSX, Macros, Translations, etc) - (PAGE_RELATED_ELEMENTS) Show links to related elements in the tree: jsx, ssx, macros, sheet and includes used in the edited page. A new version with tabs has been released (v0.8) and now we have a proposal for the Logical tree view. You can find it on the design page: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/XWebIDE+Application+Improve… What do you think about that tree? Thanks, Yann

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Deprecating SpaceDocs and Spaces panels
by vincent＠massol.net 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hi devs, I’ve implemented http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12599 and as part of this issue I needed to handle the SpaceDocs Panel, and we also need to handle the Spaces panel. Here’s my proposal: * In general we should list only Panels that work for the Nested Pages (NP) mode in the Panel Wizard (i.e. not show any Panels containing the word “Space” in their title or content). The rationale is that the majority of uses of XWiki will be for NP. * We should continue to provide Panels that work for the Nested Spaces (NS) mode (e.g. SpaceDocs, Spaces), but as extensions on e.x.o and not bundled by default in XE * However we shouldn’t break existing XWiki instances and thus I’m proposing this: ** Deprecate the SpaceDocs and Spaces panels by displaying a message (when the user is Admin), trying to push the move to the newer Panels (Children, Siblings and Navigation panels). For example, this is what I’ve done for SpaceDocs: https://www.evernote.com/l/AHfvmKs-DSZBh4IJf1Wp7VV5JfK2pEmfgME Note that this allows Admins to see that message in the Panel Wizard too and thus not be tempted to use them. ** Keep the deprecated Panels for 1 full cycle (i.e. remove them in XWiki 9.0, i.e. move them to xwiki-contrib at that time). Basically a similar strategy than for young apis. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Repository request for a "Rights UI Simplifier"
by Paul Pantiru 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hello devs, I would like a repository on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib for the extension I'm working on. The purpose of this is to make a simplified UI for the rights manager, based on a client project (The jira issue for this would be https://jira.xwikisas.com/browse/MUT-8 ). The name of the repo should be something on the lines of "application-rightsui-simplifier", however I feel that this is not a very appropriate name, since is not necessary an application, but a ui modifier of the rights manager, so any input on the name would be very much appreciated. I would also like a jira project for this app. Thanks, Paul Panțiru

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Rename the "Page" column to "Page Title" in the LT for AllDocs + Children/Siblings
by vincent＠massol.net 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi devs, I’d like to rename the Page column to Page Title to avoid confusion with the previously called Page column which has been moved to the Location column. (see http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki73M2#HPag… for details). It’s also more accurate IMO. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#90
by Eduard Moraru 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi devs, Today is BFD#90: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status for the 1 year period is 41 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… Here's the BFD#90 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13505 Thanks and enjoy your bug fixing day! -Eduard

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Removing comments, attachments, etc. tabs (#docextra) in default applications WebHome
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

Hi, #docextra tabs are particular important for content pages where users are encouraged to comment, attach, revise history, etc. But since XWiki is more than a wiki and the application usage has expanded, we removed the #docextra tab from many XWiki Contrib applications, like: File Manager, Forum, Calendar, etc. The logic behind was that the applications have as main purpose the management of applications entities, not commenting for example. Also with the Flamingo Skin, the shortcuts to Comments, Attachments, etc. can be found in the 'More actions' menu. So, my question to you is: What do you think about removing the #docextra also for default/bundled applications like: - Blog.WebHome - Dashboard.WebHome - Panels.WebHome - Scheduler.WebHome - Stats.WebHome - Main.WebHome? If we adopt this practice we could document it on: http://contrib.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HApplicationDesign or http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPra… Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.3 Milestone 1 released
by vincent＠massol.net 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.3 Milestone 1. This is the first of the 2 stabilization releases that happen at the end of each yearly Cycles. Lots of polishing has been done, especially for the recently introduced Nested Pages feature and its consequences on the UI redesign (modified menus for example). 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki73M1 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically on last name): Pascal Bastien Guillaume Delhumeau Marius Dumitru Florea Vincent Massol Ecaterina Moraru Eduard Moraru Thomas Mortagne Clemens Robbenhaar Jean Simard Gabriela Smeria Manuel Smeria Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Request for macro-quote github repo jira
by vincent＠massol.net 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Hi devs, I’ve just committed a quote macro in rendering but I think it should an external extension since the real solution is to improve the wiki syntax to support block content. I’m just requesting a github repo on contrib. Name: macro-quote Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#89
by Eduard Moraru 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

Hi devs, Today is BFD#89: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status for the 1 year period is 42 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… Here's the BFD#89 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13502 Thanks and enjoy your bug fixing day! -Eduard

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Content menus re-organization
by Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Hi. With 7.2, the content menus have changed a lot. The pain point is that we have a too much crowded "more actions" menu. Some discussions have already been done on this jira issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12587 Caty have created a design page to re-organize the menus: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/NestedMenuReorganization I'm in favor of the solution 1.2. So: * -0 for solution 1.1 since the viewers are not what we use the most (thanks to the extra tabs on the bottom) and it gives them too much importance * +1 for solution 1.2, even if we might encounter some difficulties saying if an item is a base action or an advanced one. * 0 for option A (too much clicks), but on the other hand I don't have an alternative to propose. * +1 for option B. The jira issue is already created ( http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12636) and I think nobody would be opposed to this. * +0 for option C. The browser already have this ability, and yes, it implies the hiding of the panels (thanks to some CSS we have). However, I remember a client using this feature for a convoluted use-case: include a light wiki page in an other website via an iframe. Anyway, we could still keep the viewer but remove the link. * +1 for D. I know that security through obscurity is not the best, but it disturbs me to let an access to the source code of any wiki page, including not-well-done applications created by users. Thanks, Guillaume -- Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] XWebIDE Improvements
by Yann Flory 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Hello devs, Recently, a new version of the XWebIDE ( http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XWebIDE+Application) has been published which added the ability to work with Nested spaces in the application. In order to progress with the development of the extension, we've made a list of future relevant features to add to the application. We'd now like to have your opinion about the importance of each one of them (order the features based on their priority) and your ideas for new ones. You can find the list and add your vote in the table in the design wiki : http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/XWebIDE+Application+Improve… We'd also like to know what are the required features which make you believe you'll use the application in the future. And feel free to provide any other feedback you may have about the current version of the XWebIDE application. Thanks, Yann

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New testing framework to write unit test of wiki pages
by vincent＠massol.net 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hi devs, In the past few days I’ve written the first version of a test framework to allow unit testing wiki pages in our build (see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12643) The advantages are: * No running XWiki required * Relatively fast to execute (<2s) and much faster than functional tests Some remarks: * It’s not meant to replace functional tests * What pushed me to work on this was that I wanted to provide a test for XWIKI-11524 (Do not display hidden documents in feeds) which I fixed a week ago or so but at the time I couldn’t do that easily. I would have had to write a functional tests and 1) there was no test at all existing and setting up the scaffolding is a bit heavy for this small use case 2) I didn’t want to penalize our build by a minute more or so just to validate that a “hidden/document” query filter is executed... Now it’s still an experiment at this stage as I don’t know how easy or hard it’ll be when writing unit tests for other pages and we’ll need to add more component declarations and setup for sure. On this topic we will need to start developing ComponentList annotation packs probably in order to not slow down execution of all wiki page tests. Let me know what you think and in case nobody likes it we can always remove it and move it to contrib. Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Improve the management of inexistent WebHome with children
by Denis Gervalle 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hi devs, I am opening this discussion to move the discussion started in an issue (XWIKI-12628) to its proper place, the ML. (Discussing into JIRA is very bad since it lower the audience, we tend to have done it too much recently). So the issue is that, in the Nested Document concept, we can create children to inexistent (WebHome) page. This introduce some abnormalities: - Administering inexistent page (including page rights, see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12629) - Children of inexistent page (see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12628 ) Since we agree that having nodes in the tree of pages is fine without having the intermediate document created, we definitely need to better show this concept to the final user. It would be a pain to explain to a user that access rights for page children of an inexistent page is administrable from that inexistent page. It is also very poor when you navigate from the breadcrumb to a inexistent page as a normal user to reach "The requested page could not be found." with no way to navigate further. These inexistent page are not necessarily invisible, there is links to them, and showing that as "error" page looks inappropriate IMO. So there is probably a couple of things we could do to improve this: A) display the list of children in addition to the actual message B) display a "default" and nice (not an error) dashboard on them that allow navigation (with a button for those that can edit, to create the page) C) create them all the time, with the dashboard above by default D) do not propose links to those page in the breadcrumb to users without edit right on them ? E) ... (please add more idea) I am in favor of B) currently, since I do not think we are in an "error" case like A) seems to expose. I am wondering if D) could be useful as well to limit navigation to those page or not for user that will not find them so useful... but it may exists opposite UC. WDYT ? -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO

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[xwiki-devs] Error installing Social Login Application
by wout.vanduffel 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

All, I am trying to install the social login application, but I receive the following error on install Any ideas? Kr W Failed to get fields for class [org.xwiki.social.authentication.internal.DefaultSocialAuthManager] because the class [Lorg/xwiki/crypto/passwd/PasswordCryptoService;] couldn't be found in the ClassLoader. class java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed to get fields for class [org.xwiki.social.authentication.internal.DefaultSocialAuthManager] because the class [Lorg/xwiki/crypto/passwd/PasswordCryptoService;] couldn't be found in the ClassLoader. at org.xwiki.component.util.ReflectionUtils.getAllFields(ReflectionUtils.java:71) at org.xwiki.component.annotation.ComponentDescriptorFactory.createComponentDescriptor(ComponentDescriptorFactory.java:132) at org.xwiki.component.annotation.ComponentDescriptorFactory.createComponentDescriptors(ComponentDescriptorFactory.java:105) at org.xwiki.component.annotation.ComponentAnnotationLoader.register(ComponentAnnotationLoader.java:168) at org.xwiki.component.annotation.ComponentAnnotationLoader.initialize(ComponentAnnotationLoader.java:136) at org.xwiki.extension.jar.internal.handler.JarExtensionHandler.loadComponents(JarExtensionHandler.java:149) at org.xwiki.extension.jar.internal.handler.JarExtensionHandler.install(JarExtensionHandler.java:103) at org.xwiki.extension.handler.internal.DefaultExtensionHandlerManager.install(DefaultExtensionHandlerManager.java:85) at org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractExtensionJob.installExtension(AbstractExtensionJob.java:256) at org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractExtensionJob.applyAction(AbstractExtensionJob.java:204) at org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractExtensionJob.applyActions(AbstractExtensionJob.java:151) at org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.InstallJob.runInternal(InstallJob.java:150) at org.xwiki.job.internal.AbstractJob.runInContext(AbstractJob.java:209) at org.xwiki.job.internal.AbstractJob.run(AbstractJob.java:192) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Finished job of type [install] with identifier [extension/action/org.xwiki.contrib:xwiki-social-login-ui/wiki:xwiki] -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Error-installing-Social-Login-Application… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#88
by Eduard Moraru 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hi devs, Today is BFD#88: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays We've postponed BFDs during the summer because of the large amounts of work we had on our hands with Nested Spaces / Nested Documents, but since 7.2 was released, it is now a good time to resume. Our current status for the 1 year period is 52 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… Here's the BFD#88 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13501 Thanks and enjoy your bug fixing day! -Eduard

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[xwiki-devs] XML file format to import multiple revisions of an existing page via XAR upload
by Ghosh, Amrita 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi, I am trying to update an existing page (ad new revisions) by uploading XAR using REST API: curl -k -u Admin:admin -v -X POST -T "Main.testpage.xar" -H "Content-Type: application/stream" https://SERVER/xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki?history=ADD I could successfully upload a single new revision to an existing page and that new revision is correctly showing up on the page history. But I wanted to upload multiple revisions at a time. For that in the document xml I specified the new revisions inside <versions> </versions> tag (similar to what we see in the XML of exported page with history), but that does not work. Is it possible to add multiple revisions to an existing page with a single XAR upload? Following are my document xml and package.xml inside the XAR file that I was using: Main/testpage.xml: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xwikidoc version="1.1"> <web>Main</web> <name>testpage</name> <language/> <defaultLanguage>en</defaultLanguage> <translation>0</translation> <creator>XWiki.amritg</creator> <creationDate>1443041962000</creationDate> <versions>head 6.1; access; symbols; locks; strict; 6.1 date 2015.09.23.21.11.51; author XWiki.amritg; state full; branches; next 5.1; 5.1 date 2015.09.23.21.01.49; author XWiki.amritg; state full; branches; next ; desc @@ 6.1 log @@ text @<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xwikidoc> <web>Main</web> <name>testpage</name> <language></language> <defaultLanguage>en</defaultLanguage> <translation>0</translation> <parent></parent> <creator>XWiki.amritg</creator> <author>XWiki.amritg</author> <customClass></customClass> <contentAuthor>XWiki.amritg</contentAuthor> <creationDate>1443041962000</creationDate> <date>1443042713000</date> <contentUpdateDate>1443042713000</contentUpdateDate> <version>6.1</version> <title>Test Page</title> <defaultTemplate></defaultTemplate> <validationScript></validationScript> <comment></comment> <minorEdit>false</minorEdit> <syntaxId>xwiki/2.1</syntaxId> <hidden>false</hidden> <content>Update content for 6th revision</content></xwikidoc> @ 5.1 log @@ text @<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xwikidoc> <web>Main</web> <name>testpage</name> <language></language> <defaultLanguage>en</defaultLanguage> <translation>0</translation> <parent></parent> <creator>XWiki.amritg</creator> <author>XWiki.amritg</author> <customClass></customClass> <contentAuthor>XWiki.amritg</contentAuthor> <creationDate>1443041962000</creationDate> <date>1443042713000</date> <contentUpdateDate>1443042713000</contentUpdateDate> <version>5.1</version> <title>Test Page</title> <defaultTemplate></defaultTemplate> <validationScript></validationScript> <comment></comment> <minorEdit>false</minorEdit> <syntaxId>xwiki/2.1</syntaxId> <hidden>false</hidden> <content>Update content for 5th revision</content></xwikidoc> @ </versions> <author>XWiki.amritg</author> <contentAuthor>XWiki.amritg</contentAuthor> <date>1443042712000</date> <contentUpdateDate>1443042712000</contentUpdateDate> <version>6.1</version> <title>Test Page</title> <comment/> <minorEdit>false</minorEdit> <syntaxId>xwiki/2.1</syntaxId> <hidden>false</hidden> <content>Update content for 6th revision</content> </xwikidoc> Package.xml: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <package> <infos> <name>Main.testpage</name> <description/> <licence/> <author/> <version/> <backupPack>false</backupPack> <preserveVersion>true</preserveVersion> <extensionId/> </infos> <files> <file defaultAction="0" language="">Main.testpage</file> </files> </package> Thanks, Amrita

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XWiki 7.3
by vincent＠massol.net 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi devs, Since 7.3 is a stabilization release I propose that we don’t introduce any new features in it and that we focus on stabilizing the Nested Spaces feature which has had its first release in XWiki 7.2. The idea would be to work on Nested Spaces issues as priority and reduce this list to zero: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=%… Of course we should also fix any important bugs from other features too. In addition a user has asked us to look at * http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12294: Unable to build on Windows because of failing META-INF/components.txt check Last, in 7.3 and 7.4 we should also work on fixing/polishing features that have been introduced in this cycle (7.x), such as DW/EM work to improve upgrades. Proposed Dates: =============== 7.3M1: 12 October 2015 7.2M2: 26 October 2015 7.3RC1: 2 November 2015 7.3final: 9 Novembre 2015 Note that I’ve put only 1 week between M2 and RC1 and one week between RC1 and final because we need to have a 7.4 that ends before the end of the year. I’ve left one week of buffer between the end of 7.3 final and the start of 7.4M1 in case we have delays. Tentative dates for 7.4: 7.4M1: 30 November 2015 7.4M2: 14 December 2015 7.4RC1: 21 December 2015 7.4final: 28 December 2015 Note that we don’t have much margin with the Christmas holidays. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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