December 2015 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.4 Milestone 2 released
by Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.4 Milestone 2. This is our last stabilization branch for the XWiki 7.x Cycle. It brings polishing and stabilization for the Nested Pages feature and the changes in UI that resulted from it. It is now possible to have template hierarchies, and to add an automatic redirect when a page is renamed. 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki74M2 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically): Guillaume Delhumeau Sergiu Dumitriu Marius Dumitru Florea Vincent Massol Eduard Moraru Thomas Mortagne Manuel Smeria Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Create Jira project for XWiki Multipage PDF Export
by Manuel Smeria 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hello devs, Can someone create a Jira project for the XWiki Multipage PDF Export? This is its page on the Extensions wiki: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Multipage+PDF+Export The application doesn't seem to be compatible with XWiki 7.1.3. Thanks, Manuel

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[xwiki-devs] No answer on xwiki-users
by Olaf Radicke 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi, I know that is not the mailing list of the users, but I have the same question as this posting: http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/029114.html Only difference is, I'm using version 7.3 of XWiki. Has been this issue answers? Thank you, Olaf (Germany, Augsburg)

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] New extension that ease adding properties to the wiki descriptor from velocity
by Denis Gervalle 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi devs, I have just released the first version of api-wiki-customproperties, a new extension that provides a scripting API to access and manager generic custom properties in wiki descriptors. You can get quick overview of it from the extension page at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Wiki+Custom+Properties… I hope you will find this new API useful for your projects. Please, could someone with enough privileges create a new JIRA project for this extension. Thanks, -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Remove TinyMCE files from the XWiki WAR
by vincent＠massol.net 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi devs, Here’s what I commented on https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/307 : “ Thanks Pascal. I've just noticed that we still bundle TinyMCE in XWiki's WAR. It was probably left for backward compatibility but since it's been like 6-7 years that we've dropped it, I believe we could vote about dropping it from our sources and if someone really needs it they'll still be able to manually install them in their wikis. I'll follow up on the devs list, thanks. “ WDYT? Are you ok to remove it? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Put the "Search" icon to the left of the "Watchlist" icon in the top menu
by Guillaume Lerouge 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi Devs, a minor suggestion after trying a 7.4 snapshot locally: shouldn't we put the search icon before the watchlist icon? Right now clicking the search icon moves the watchlist icon laterally, which is a bit surprising => if the search icon was leftmost, this would not be a problem. WDYT? Thanks, Guillaume

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[xwiki-devs] [Idea] Rewrite Activity Stream + Stats using Elastic Search
by vincent＠massol.net 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi devs, I think that for data that are both not critical and high volume we should use ElasticSearch instead of saving them in our RDBMS. So the idea would be to have an embedded ES in XWiki by default (using the permanent directory to store its data) and admins could configure XWiki to use a separate ES instance (very similar to what we do with SOLR). Whenever a user modifies/creates/deletes/does operations on XObjects/etc, this is sent to ES. The AS UI queries ES to display the data. The Stats UI does the same. Pros: - scalability - performance - extensibility. It’s easy to evolve the schema in ES, and we can easily have several formats (as was proven by the Active Installs code) I’d like to start a POC in my “free” time. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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Re: [xwiki-devs] Dependency for pages modifications and XWiki context
by vincent＠massol.net 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

XWiki 6.x requires java 6 XWiki 7.x requires java 7 Thanks -Vincent PS 1: Don’t reply to me please. Instead reply to the list. Thanks PS 2: Next time please use the users lists, the devs list is for people developing the xwiki project. See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists which says clearly: “For XWiki development itself (to be used by Committers and Contributors to the XWiki development)." On 12 Dec 2015 at 11:07:01, Giordano Ninonà ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > It ended in a compilation error because in my component I used jdk 8 then stuff like lambda expression and multi-catch that "are not supported in -source 1.6" ... sorry but I don't have a clue of what is happened. > > Giordano. > > 2015-12-12 10:58 GMT+01:00 Giordano Ninonà : > > Thanks, i have created a setting.xml file as suggested in the link, now it seems to work but now it is downloading a very lot of packages, it is normal? > > > > Giordano. > > > > 2015-12-12 10:36 GMT+01:00 [email protected](mailto:[email protected]) : > > > Hi Giordano, > > > On 12 Dec 2015 at 10:16:20, Giordano Ninonà ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])(mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > > > When I compile, Maven says to me that the > > > > "org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:jar is missing.” > > > > > > This probably means that you have not told Maven where to find artifacts, i.e. you have not configured the Maven Remote repository locations. > > > > > > See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building > > > > > > Thanks > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > 2015-12-12 9:15 GMT+01:00 Giordano Ninonà : > > > > > > > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > > > > > I am developing a Java component that provides methods accessed through a > > > > > script service. I need to modify XWiki pages, thus i need the context and, > > > > > if i remember well, to add the "xwiki-platform-oldcore" dependency in the > > > > > pom.xml file. > > > > > Unfortunately maven cannot resolve the dependency, saying that "the > > > > > artifact is missing". > > > > > > > > > > Someone can help me? > > > > > > > > > > Giordano. > > >

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[xwiki-devs] Dependency for pages modifications and XWiki context
by Giordano Ninonà 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi devs, I am developing a Java component that provides methods accessed through a script service. I need to modify XWiki pages, thus i need the context and, if i remember well, to add the "xwiki-platform-oldcore" dependency in the pom.xml file. Unfortunately maven cannot resolve the dependency, saying that "the artifact is missing". Someone can help me? Giordano.

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[xwiki-devs] xwiki-contrib access
by Aaron MacSween 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Bonjour! I'm starting to settle in to things here at XWiki, which means I'm starting to find some minor bugs that I can fix (on the way to fixing a larger one). As such, Caleb suggested I ask here to be given access to the github.com/xwiki-contrib/ organization so I can push my changes. Since that puts me in a position to do some minor damage to the state of the HEAD, are there any procedures or guidelines I should follow when making changes? Thanks in advance, Aaron

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