March 2016 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Clarification about the "More Actions" menu + extradcos tabs
by Vincent Massol 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi devs, Here’s the outcome of a discussion I had with Caty/Edy on IRC + addition of some elements of my own. The idea is to clarify our strategy for the “More Actions” menu. So here’s a proposal: * The More Actions menus is actually a "More" menu since it doesn't contain only actions. Specifically it contains 2 types of links: ** Actions such as Export, Annotate, Print, Share ** Information about the page (they're not actions): History, Comments/Annotations, Children, Attachments * The "View Source" entry is not placed correctly and should be moved to the information section * The "Information" entry could be renamed or be made more specific since the whole section of the menu is about information about the page. It used to contain children but that's been separated so all it contains now are included pages and backlinks. These could be transformed into 2 viewers: one for includes pages and one for backlinks * The extradocs tabs do not need to match the information section of the "More" menu. We only display in the tabs the most important actions. * Idea: In order not to have too many tabs and to simplify the UI, we could decide to remove the Information one and have "Included Pages" and "Backlinks" only as menu entries. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Display the children/sibling menu entry even for pages that don't exist?
by Vincent Massol 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi devs, In the past it was possible to see the space index even when on a page that didn’t exist. We’ve lost this feature when we introduced the children/siblings menu entry at the page edition level (in the ‘other’ menu on the right). We have 2 choices: A) Keep it like this B) Display the ‘other' menu and children/silbing entry even when on a page that doesn’t exist. The rationale for B) is that XWiki allows creating pages inside pages that don’t exist, so even if you’re on a non-existing pages, it’s still interesting to be able to see children/siblings. A use case I got today: * I was on Admin.WebHome. There were 53 children doc. * I renamed Admin.WebHome with children to another space * The rename failed but Admin.WebHome was moved * I wanted to quickly list the children of Admin.WebHome that were not moved. Of course I could have navigated away and opened the drawer to go to AllDocs and then filter on Admin but that’s extra work. I was looking for a children LT view and realized it wasn’t displayed because I was on a non-existing page. WDYT? What do you prefer between A) and B)? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] CKEditor Integration v1.3 Released
by Marius Dumitru Florea 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi all, A new version of the CKEditor Integration extension is available. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/CKEditor+Integration#H… . You can install or upgrade with the Extension Manager. Thanks, Marius

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[xwiki-devs] RedPen Integration in XWiki
by Nitish Chauhan 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hello sir , For the past few days, I had examined and read the documents you mentioned about RedPen Integration in XWiki. Since I am new to XWiki, I also researched about XWiki itself. I was able to extract the following information :- 1.) XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. 2.) It is large Scale structured Wiki. 3.) Can make Page Editing (like wikipedia) easy & fast. 4.) Can help to change the Wiki Layout . 5.) Easy link integration . Can change the Wiki layout also. some Advance features :- 1.) Can integrate Code also through it.(simple scripts can be included in the wiki pages like python,velocity,etc). 2.) Xwiki allows us to include META-DATA in the pages. How it works :- 1.) Xwiki core has many API's. 2.) There are different Classes & each class can have different instances or Objects. 3.) In XWiki there is possibilty of adding Objects like :- Tag Object , etc 4.) Application in Xwiki = set of Pages (Classes , Objects ,...). The Current Idea for GSOC :- The Idea is to integrate RedPen inside XWiki. What is RedPen?? 1.)RedPen is a proofreading tool that helps writers & developers to write Technical documents or manuels without any error.Basically, it improves the quality of documents. 2.) Can only be used for natural languages not computer languages. Why to use in Xwiki?? In many cases , XWiki users had to write some Natural language documents , so in order to reduce the error , a RedPen integration would be great. How?? 1.) There can be a RedPen plugin in Xwiki, Which will list out all the errors when the user will save the documents. 2.) RedPen does this , by using different validators. 3.)RedPen supports the following validators. 1.)SentenceLength 2.)InvalidExpression 3.)InvalidWord 4.)SpaceBeginningOfSentence 5.)CommaNumber..etc According to our requirements , we can insert more types of Validators. RedPen users can extend RedPen by creating new Validators. (In JAVA) I also tried to read "REDPEN INTELLIJ IDEA PLUGIN". It is easy to install RedPen Plugin in it , but sir can you help me a little on how to basically integrate it to XWiki. I need some help in this case. I tried searching on JIRA , but was to able to extract relevent info from there. It would be great , if you could guide me little. I am willing to learn new Technology if needed. Also, what are the things that should be included in the GSOC proposal (I need some help in that also) Looking Forward for your Help , reviews & suggestions. Thank you. regards, Nitish Chauhan

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[xwiki-devs] Is there any way to automate extension installation?
by abtv 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I have xwiki enterprise with Postgres as db backend. Right now I'm using the following: 1. Download http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-web-7.4.1.war unzip it and put it under Jetty. 2. Change config files to use Postgres. 3. Download http://download.forge.ow2.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki-all-7.4.1.… 4. Run xwiki 5. Import xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki-all-7.4.1.xar via UI. I wonder if it's possible to make step 5 (import xar file) via API (don't use UI for it). I would like to simplify xwiki deployment. What I've already done: I automated spaces/pages creation via REST API. I think there should be some way to automate extension installation. I've found XFF REST API http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XFF+REST+API . Is it possible to use it to install xar files with extensions? Maybe there are other ways? I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Is-there-any-way-to-automate-extension-in… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 8.0 released
by Thomas Mortagne 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 8.0. This is the first release of the 8.x cycle. This version introduces a new experimental minimal XWiki distribution and a new Distribution Wizard step to create the first user with administration right instead of importing the Admin user. It also adds many improvements related to nested spaces on copy and rename features, location picker, link syntax. Various new option have been added to the chart macro and as usual you will find many more improvements in the detailed release note. 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki80 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically): acotiuga Denis Gervalle Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) Eduard Moraru Guillaume Delhumeau Manuel Smeria Marius Dumitru Florea Sergiu Dumitriu Thomas Mortagne vasquez Vincent Massol Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Move all pages specific to xwiki.org customisations in a XWikiOrg space
by Vincent Massol 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Resending as I sent it with a wrong email address the firs time (and it was rejected and went to my spam folder and I’m noticing it just now… :)). Thanks -Vincent > On 15 Mar 2016, at 12:29, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > > Hi Caty, > >> On 15 Mar 2016, at 12:20, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We already have the XWikiOrgCode space containing >> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XWikiOrgCode/Skin?viewer=siblings >> So I need to know what is the final space where we want to put things. > > In XWikiOrg.UI, see the proposal at http://markmail.org/message/lmzayzj4afcel4pl > >> Questions: >> - what we do with subwikis customizations? if we move them from subwikis to >> the main wiki than we might need to set them from the object editor >> https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11988 > > Ayn reason to move them? The proposal proposed a XWikiOrg space for all subwikis too, see http://markmail.org/message/lmzayzj4afcel4pl > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> Thanks, >> Caty >> >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:46 AM, vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I’m doing it but I’m mentioning it here so that I can document it on >>> dev.xwiki.org somewhere and so that next time someone needs to add or >>> modify something he/she should know where to put or find it. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> On 11 Mar 2016 at 10:39:23, Paul Libbrecht (paul(a)hoplahup.net) wrote: >>> >>> This would be interesting, definitely. >>> My +1. >>> >>> paul >>> >>> PS: Who's taking charge of it? >>>> Marius Dumitru Florea <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> 11 March 2016 at 10:18 >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Marius >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:39 PM, vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> devs mailing list >>>> devs(a)xwiki.org >>>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>>> vincent(a)massol.net <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> 10 March 2016 at 18:39 >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> I’d like that we agree on a rule, which is to put all our xwiki.org >>>> customizations inside a XWikiOrg space (for the main wiki and all >>>> subwikis). I’m not talking about apps but about pages to customize the >>>> UI such as skin, color themes, panels, UIX, etc. >>>> >>>> I need to create some UIX for the quick search on subwikis so I’m >>>> going to start this now. >>>> >>>> Let me know what you think. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Releasing Forums, Meetings and Notes Applications
by Alexandru Cotiuga 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hi devs, I'm releasing today: Forum Application v2.0 with fixes for http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XAFORUM/fixforversion/16376 Meeting Application v1.6 with fixes for http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XAMEETINGS/fixforversion/15241 Note Application v1.1 with fixes for https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/NOTES/fixforversion/15388 If for Forum Application I have permissions to Release on Jira, I can't say the same thing about the other two and I would need somebody else to release them on Jira. So, if someone's available to help, please let me know. Thanks, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] RedPen Xwiki Integration
by Nitish Chauhan 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hello sir, I am interested in this project because the Idea is really nice. Working in this project will definately horm my skill & I will learn a lot of new things. I find myself the right person in persuing this project because :- 1.) I have good experiance in Android Development. 2.) I am very much willing to learn new technologies from others. 3.) I had recently worked on Wikipedia Mobile editor android app .(WikiMedia API). 4.) I am passionate for Software Development. 5.) I will fully devote my time & skills for this project. Looking forward. Thanks, Regards, Nitish Chauhan GitHub :- https://github.com/Nitish18 LinkedIn :- https://in.linkedin.com/in/nitish-chauhan-060a66a5 Webpage : - http://nitish18.github.io/NitishChauhan.github.io playstore :- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eventassociate.weddingapp…

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Move all pages specific to xwiki.org customisations in a XWikiOrg space
by vincent＠massol.net 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hi devs, I’d like that we agree on a rule, which is to put all our xwiki.org customizations inside a XWikiOrg space (for the main wiki and all subwikis). I’m not talking about apps but about pages to customize the UI such as skin, color themes, panels, UIX, etc. I need to create some UIX for the quick search on subwikis so I’m going to start this now. Let me know what you think. Thanks -Vincent

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