May 2016 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [GSoC] Coding period has started
by Eduard Moraru 27 May '16

27 May '16

Hi Fitz, our GSoC 2016 student :), The GSoC 2016 coding period has officially started on the 23rd of May. I hope you have taken advantage of the bonding period to get up to speed with the XWiki project, its code and documentation, and that you have a pretty good idea of what you need to do to turn your project into a success. As for tips and things that you need to do in the following (coding) period, please make sure you read carefully the these 2 dedicated sections [1][2] in the student guidelines [3], particularly: * keeping your progress report page up to date [4] * creating your design page as instructed [5] * making your contribution to the XWiki project (pull request) Working on your project is great, but it`s only half of the work that GSoC involves. The other half is integrating into the community, letting people know what your are working on, asking for help and learning to ask the right questions, and generally communicating about yourself and your work. In order to keep in touch, additionally to reading and being active on the mailing list, you also need to be present on IRC as much as possible (at least while you are working on your project) so that: * people see you and can quickly get a hold of you * you are exposed to everyday community activity that might spark your interest * get more occasions to ask questions * get more occasions to help others with their problems should you know the answer * etc. Hope you are finding XWiki to be an interesting project and that you are enjoying your GSoC so far. Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HSuggeste… [2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HConditio… [3] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines [4] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/DocumentingStudentPr… [5] http://design.xwiki.org/

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[xwiki-devs] [Blog] Use the Apache HTTP library to interact with the XWiki RESTful API
by Eduard Moraru 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hi, As promised, I`m sharing with you the addition of a new article on xwiki.org's blog: "Use the Apache HTTP library to interact with the XWiki RESTful API" by Mohamed Boussaa http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/Use+the+Apache+HTTP+library+to+int… As the title suggests, the article exemplifies how you can use XWiki`s REST API from Java or Groovy using Apache's HttpComponents library. There have been some recurring questions over the time on how to do that, so if you still have doubts, have a look and hopefully Mohamed will also be available to answer some of your questions. If you have something XWiki-related that you would like to share on xwiki.org's blog, please see my previous mail on how you can easily do that: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/r4r4celltmdprqia Thanks, Eduard

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] Release of Nested Pages Migrator Application 0.5
by Guillaume Delhumeau 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hello A new version of the Nested Pages Migrator Application extension is available. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Nested+Pages+Migrator+… <http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Tour+Application#Hv1.0> You can install or upgrade with the Extension Manager. The application is still a beta version that you should use carefully. XWiki crashes might occur during the migration. But this version brings the ability to detect bad documents created because of these crashes so you are able to finish the migration by restarting XWiki (several times if needed). It is still not a friendly process, but at least it is possible and I know it will help some peoples. It also brings an icon in the applications panel :) Enjoy! -- Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 8.1 released
by Marius Dumitru Florea 24 May '16

24 May '16

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 8.1 final. This release brings an upgrade to the Java 8 runtime, a new Tips panel that replaces the old Quick Links panel, Extension Manager improvements and LDAP avatar synchronization. As usual, a lot of bug fixes (81) and minor improvements (43) are also included. 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki81 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically): Alexandru Cotiuga Clemens Robbenhaar Denis Gervalle Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) Eduard Moraru Guillaume Delhumeau Jean SIMARD Lukas Raska Manuel Smeria Marius Dumitru Florea Medjdoub Sean Whalen Sergiu Dumitriu Thomas Mortagne Vincent Massol Yuri Konotopov Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] documentTree macro doesn't work after adding Delete right by default
by abtv 24 May '16

24 May '16

I use the following code to grant Delete right by default (I execute this java code on xwiki start): XWikiContext context = contextProvider.get(); if (context != null) { XWiki xwiki = context.getWiki(); DocumentReference dr = new DocumentReference("xwiki", "XWiki", "XWikiPreferences"); XWikiDocument doc = xwiki.getDocument(dr, context); BaseObject bo = doc.getObject("XWiki.XWikiGlobalRights", true, context); bo.set("groups", "XWiki.XWikiAllGroup", context); bo.set("levels", "view,comment,edit,delete,script", context); bo.set("users", "", context); bo.set("allow", 1, context); xwiki.saveDocument(doc, context); } I have strange effect: while I do have Delete right by default, documentTree macro doesn't work, I see spinning circles. I also have the following message in the xwiki terminal: Exception in macro #handleDocumentTreeRequest called at 13:xwiki:XWiki.DocumentTree[line 3, column 1 <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7599540/xwiki_problem.jpg> How to fix the problem? -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/documentTree-macro-doesn-t-work-after-add… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal][XWiki.org] Homepage
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 24 May '16

24 May '16

Hi, This is a proposal for a couple of changes we could do on XWiki.org Homepage in order to better present our platform: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/XWikiOrgHomepageCompani… There are no vast modifications, the proposal mostly resuming to some realigning / updating and the addition of a Testimonial section. Changes: 1. Carousel: We will need to review all the entries in the carousel. In this proposal I just present the first entry. It provides updates screenshots, updated features and positions XWiki to other products. I need to make more iterations for the slides, better explaining XWiki usages and development applicability. Related to [1]. 2. Logos: we added some logos of some known companies using our products. Related to [2]. 3. References: currently we are randomly selecting from the whole list of available references. Ideally we should provide a shorter list containing high quality entries of websites build on top of XWiki. 4. Blog Posts: very few changes to this area. I know there are contributors that would want to have a more prominent blog section. This depends on our desire to have images on every posts and with a rework on Blog application style. I haven't tackle this topic in this proposal, but this is something to consider for the future. 5. Testimonials: this is a new section containing quotes from our users. The quotes have been previously listed only on the Testimonials page, but now we might want to present some of them in a more visible way. It's always nice to see how users are perceiving XWiki and how they've put it to good use. 6. Stats: this is a reworked Community Heartbeat section. The idea is to show the activity and the vast areal XWiki is having. Let me know what you think, Caty [1] http://markmail.org/thread/vfyh4ihsc6lwbddd [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mcbcvd4i5cgoebh5

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[xwiki-devs] Adding new "Forum Tab" next to Comments Tab on every page
by superuser 23 May '16

23 May '16

I have been working on www.wikinote.org I want to add a new "Forum Tab" next to "Comments Tab" on every page. In that Tab I need options like: 1] functionality to add web-links. (pointing to 'forum pages' and 'topics in the forum') 2] display the list of already added links. How can I do that? e.g. display links present already. below it, show text input field. and besides it, a button to submit the new link -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Adding-new-Forum-Tab-next-to-Comments-Tab… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] Add a new Tab on every page
by superuser 23 May '16

23 May '16

I have been working on www.wikinote.org I want to add a new "Forum Tab" next to "Comments Tab". In that Tab I need options like: 1] functionality to add web-links. (pointing to 'forum pages' and 'topics in the forum') 2] display the list of already added links. How can I do that? -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Add-a-new-Tab-on-every-page-tp7599563.html Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XWiki 8.2
by Vincent Massol 20 May '16

20 May '16

Hi devs, We’re releasing XWiki 8.& next Monday and we now need to think about what to implement in 8.2. I’ve discussed with the XWiki SAS developers and here’s below what we’d like to do in the coming timeframe. Note that several XWiki SAS devs will continue to work on some internal XWiki SAS projects during this timeframe and thus will have less time for XWiki dev for 8.2. Priority 1: * CKEditor Polish + Bug fixes + Plugin extensibility + extra stuff to be defined (custom editors for macros, etc) - Marius * OpenId Connect SSO finishing + polishing - Thomas * Curated extensions feature in EM (curated extensions listed + ability to see others if explicitly asked) - Thomas * Propose some strategy to curate extensions on e.x.o + curate them - Vincent * XWiki home page Welcome Tour - Alex * Improvement to activeinstalls to capture some more information (ideas: email hash for unicity, country, number of users) - Vincent * Nested App Migrator polishing/bug fixing - GuillaumeD * Bug Fixing Day - All Priority 2: * Addition of a paying + trial feature in EM (see that an app is paying + has a trial and show it) - Thomas * XWiki Home page usability improvements - ? Dates (note that XWiki SAS has its yearly seminar just after the 18th of July hence why I’m proposing to release at that time): * 8.2M1: 6 June 2016 * 8.2M2: 20 June 2016 * 8.2RC1: 4 July 2016 * 8.2Final: 18 July 2016 WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Display "User Index" in drawer only to administrators
by superuser 20 May '16

20 May '16

I tried to play around with drawer.vm but only in vain. I need to: 1] display 'User Index' from drawer only to administrator (not possible by 'administer page/parent' option) 2] add other applications e.g. 'Invitation', 'sandbox' to drawer -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Display-User-Index-in-drawer-only-to-admi… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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