November 2015 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [ActiveInstalls][Brainstorming] Sending the number of users/wikis in the ping: a problem?
by vincent＠massol.net 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi devs, Right now, during the Active Installs ping we send a certain number of information (http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Active+Installs+Client…) which allow us to have this dashboard: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ActiveInstalls/ This allows us to have an idea of how XWiki’s usage is moving forward (whether it’s growing, reducing or is stable). This also allows us to try new changes in new XWiki versions and see how that affects the number of active installs, thus validating or invalidating the changes. Since XWiki is a Server software, I was thinking that the number of instances around the world isn't really a good indicator of how much XWiki is used by users. Imagine an XWiki instance with 10K users. Right now it’s counted the same as an instance with 1 user. That doesn’t seem quite right since the instance with 10K users shows a much more important usage of XWiki. Thus I was thinking that we could add sending both the total number of users (from all subwikis) + the number of wikis, for the current XWiki instance. Since the data is anonymous and there’s no way to link it to any company/user, I don’t feel it would generate a privacy issue. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 6.4.6 released
by Denis Gervalle 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 6.4.6. This is mainly a stabilization release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 6.4.5 and earlier versions. 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki646 The following people have contributed code to this release: Clemens Robbenhaar Denis Gervalle Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) Eduard Moraru Guillaume Delhumeau Marius Dumitru Florea Thomas Mortagne Vincent Massol Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-users] [Survey] Feedback about XWiki and future features
by vincent＠massol.net 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Thanks for the feedback Anton! On 6 Nov 2015 at 14:06:22, Anton Hughes ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > On 30 October 2015 at 14:24, vincent(a)massol.net wrote: > > > Latest news is that we now have 16 answers. Good start :) > > > > 17 at least. I just added my 2c. > > > -- > Anton Hughes

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[xwiki-devs] Watchlist icons improvements
by Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Hi. The other thread about the content menus re-organization has deviated to talk about the watchlist, so I prefer to continue the discussion on this new thread. I have made some mock-ups that you can see there: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/WatchListButtonsonXE73 WDYT? Thanks, -- Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Improvements to the Create/Delete/Move/Rename UIs
by vincent＠massol.net 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Hi devs, Some users have raised that when you click on the pencil icon in the Create/Delete/Move/Rename UIs, the user has to understand the “dot notation” (ie the reference notation) and that it’s not user-friendly for simple users. Here’s what I propose: 1) Only display the pencil icon (and thus the advanced controls) for Advanced Users. 2) Note that we were doing this initially but it was modified to fix http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12526. The idea would be to fix XWIKI-12526 differently by modifying how we perform validation on the title field: if the title field is empty, don’t expand the location edit controls and just highlight the title field (for simple users). 3) (suggested by Edy): Introduce controls in the modal document picker (tree) for creating empty documents in place (similar to creating new folders in an operating system's folder picker, where you would create new folders until you achieve the hierarchy you desire). We could even think about using a template (e.g. space homepage) for these "placeholder" documents. E.g. http://i.stack.imgur.com/umdE9.png http://www.mclures.net/java/struts/Together/Struts-screenshots/create_proje… (contextual menu) etc... The advantage of this would be that it would make more sense to simple users and it would also be something they could use. Of course, one downside would be the extra empty/placeholder documents that it would create, but you have the same thing in a filesystem, more or less. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Feel like trying Gitter.im?
by vincent＠massol.net 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi devs, I feel it would help the XWiki project if we had some chat infrastructure more user-friendly than IRC channel (which is currently mostly used by the xwiki developers and a few power contributors/users). I think it would help spread xwiki more and be more friendly to our community (btw the same should be done for the mailing list by moving the user mailing list to a forum but that’s for another thread). I wonder if you guys would be interested to moving to another tool such as Gitter.im: https://gitter.im/ It seems to be nice for open communities. Nicer than Slack anyway (I’ve tried Slack for another community I’m in and we quickly reached the 10K messages and it’s not nice to have this red reminder message and you loose some messages that you can’t see - See http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-r…) Of course another strategy would be to ask a company to host a tool for us, such as http://www.mattermost.org/ but setting it up and maintaining it has a price and we’d need to convince some company like XWiki SAS to do that and I’m not sure it’s worth it. Let me know what you think and if you’re ok to try it, I’ll set up an org on gitter so that we can make an experiment and try it out. Thanks -Vincent

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