March 2019 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 11.2 released
by Vincent Massol 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 11.2. This release brings a warning to the users when they are editing a page and other users are saving the same content. The Object editor has a new way of presenting XClasses meant to increase the user experience, while the top level application pages are not displayed anymore in the Navigation Panel. In addition the performance of the Notifications feature has been improved. You can download it here: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download Make sure to review the release notes: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/11.2 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [WCAG] Reference validator
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi devs, I've started to analyze the 971 tests failing on webstandards related to the WCAG validation. I plan to create issues in order for us to fix the errors. The problem I have is that we were validating against the Dutch Guidelines validation tool (previously http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/testing) but this tool has been discontinued by the Dutch Ministry in July 2017, see https://www.digitoegankelijk.nl/onderwerpen/testen/nieuws/2017/04/25/gewoon… The difference between the W3C WCAG rules (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/) and the Dutch Guidelines was that the latest were more strict. Also WCAG specification advanced to version 2.1 in Jun 2018. Since I don't have much experience in the way we've implemented the validator, I'm asking if anyone has any idea of another validator we could replace this one with (in case we want this). Else, I will try to investigate and find a replacement for a new reference validator. Currently the plan is to fix our code to match the current definitions and in cases that are not covered by W3C WCAG and where we want to add "exceptions" I test also online on: * https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4/accessibility-checker/ and * http://wave.webaim.org/ Let me know if you have any objections to the 2 tools mentioned above. I've started the investigation at: https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/WCAG10x we can discuss each error and "exception" on the individual issues. Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 11.2 RC1 released
by Alex Cotiugă 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of 11.2 RC1. This release brings a warning to the users when they are editing a page and other users are saving the same content. The Object editor has a new way of presenting XClasses meant to increase the user experience, while the top level application pages are not displayed anymore in Navigation Panel. You can download it here: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download Make sure to review the release notes: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/11.2RC1/ Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [Feedback] Installation choices
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi Devs, I'm curious what you think about this direction for the Download / Install page on xwiki.org: Iteration 1 https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Install/LDJEasierInstallationFl… Changes: * Download renamed to Install * Form at the beginning to select the version, OS, type and package * Depending on the user selection, there is an option to Download the package, or you just get Installation steps (personalized for each option selected). I've iterated currently just for the ZIP package (for Demo+Mac), but imagine something similar for all the other packages. What do you think? Should I continue in this direction? Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] WebDAV extension failing build
by Vincent Massol 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hi Clemens, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the WebDAV build is failing: https://ci.xwiki.org/view/All%20Failed%20Builds/job/XWiki%20Contrib/job/web… Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] asking for help, issues for a team
by Jeremi Kádár 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Dear XWiki developers, I and my friends learn Computer Science at the University Of Szeged. One of our obligatory task in this semester to participate in an open source project. We decide to choose a project so our team wouldn't be randomized and we don't have to risk that we'll be put together with students who too lazy to work. I've found XWiki and seen that this would be an excellent choice since it's well known and has some history behind itself and the project itself is really interesting too. We've read the different guides about how to participate, registrated to jira, github, devmails... Our problem is that we couldn't find an issue / work item with the following criterias: - no one's working on it || not assigned ( - it's beginner friendly, not have to know *everything *from A to B about the project code ) Each of us have to take an issued or if there is 2-3 issue big enough, then on each of the issues 2-3 members of our team would work on. We have to showcase the first milestone next week, until then we should get to known to the project and get issues / task. We would be grateful if you could help us! Thanking you in advance... Sorry for the language mistakes. I'm writing this letter down in Hungarian as well, just in case: Kedves XWiki fejlesztők, Én és a barátaim Programtervező Informatikára járunk a Szegedi Tudományegyetemen. Ebben a félévben az egyik kötelező feladatunk részt venni egy nyílt forráskódú projekt fejlesztésében. Úgy döntöttünk, hogy mi választjuk a projektet, mivel így a csapatunk nem véletlenszerű lesz kiválasztva és nem fogunk olyanokkal összekerülni, akik nem akarnak dolgozni. Rátaláltam az XWiki-re és tökéletes választásnak találtam, mivel ismert, van háttere és maga a projekt is nagyon érdekes. Elolvastuk a különböző leírásokat és regisztráltunk githubra, jirara, fejlesztői e-mailekre. Az a problémánk, hogy nem találtunk issuet / feladatot az alábbi feltételek mellett: - senki sem dolgozik rajta || senkin sincs még rajta ( - kezdőknek is jó, nem kell *mindent* tudni hozzá a projekt forráskódjáról ) Mindannyiunknak kell felvennie egy issuet vagy ha van 2-3 nagyobb issue, akkor mindegyiken a csapatból 2-3 ember is dolgozhatna. Az első mérföldkövet jövő héten kell bemutatnunk, addig meg kell ismernünk a projektet és szereznünk kell feladatot is. Hálásak lennénk, ha tudnátok segíteni! Előre is köszönöm...

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[xwiki-devs] Request for a nexus account
by Paul Libbrecht 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Dear XWiki developers, I would like to perform releases for Apps of the https://github.com/xwikisas/ repositories. My current work is on [application-googleapps](https://github.com/xwikisas/application-googleapps/). To do this, I would need an account on nexus.xwiki.org. Thanks in advance. Paul

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-notifications] About the GSOC mentors email address
by Thomas Mortagne 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

You should not try to directly send mails to the mentors and instead communicate using general communication channels in which mentors will answer you. The best to to start start by reading https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines. On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:53 AM Weiqiang Cai <caiweiqiang44144(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear mentors， > > Good day. > > Hello there! sorry for disturbance. > > I am a student who is about to apply for GSOC2019. I am very interested in XWIKI, although I have not used it before. But I have spent some time to understand it. > > I am very interested in some projects, and would like to try it. So I want to have a discussion with the project’s mentor. But I find the email address in the mentor profile is incomplete. > > Would you give me some suggestions about how to get complete address? > > Thanks & Best Regards, > > CaiWeiqiang -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] Status on Docker + CI + Clover - Outstanding tasks
by Vincent Massol 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Hi devs, I wanted to keep up to date on the list of stuff that we still need to do in the domain of Docker, CI & Clover, specifically on the domains I’ve been working on. All the items below are items I need to work on (but any help is welcome of course). 1) Clover pipeline job to modify to add docker-based functional tests: right now the global TPC is going to decrease because of MenuIT and MailIT. This needs to be fixed ASAP before we convert too many tests. 2) Also fix Clover pipeline job in general which hasn’t passed since the 22nd of October 3) Execute Docker-based tests in main pipeline job for the default config as otherwise we might have the platform job succeeding but it’ll miss several functional tests! Option 1: execute Browser outside of docker as option, Option 2: add more docker-based agents. For the moment, we might be able to run the docker tests on agent4. 4) Screenshot attachment on UI test failures to fix in pipeline job 5) Flicker recognition on tests to fix in pipeline job 6) Fix the ClosedChannelExcption/InterruptedException in our CI 7) Research running Jenkins agents in docker images and make our Docker test work (docker on docker). Once this works, set up 2 or 2 agents on a4. And then move all other agents to this. 8) Still need to apply the Clover strategy we agreed on (global TPC needs to not go down during releases). 9) Find strategy to move Docker image creation in platform build Let me know if you have questions. Thanks -Vincent PS: I didn’t list fixing tests (such and flicker fixing or WCAG test fixing) since this not infra and I wanted to limit this list to infra.

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[xwiki-devs] Introduction Newbie and GSoC interested candidate
by mua rachmann 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Hello everyone, I am Mua Laurent a final year student at the University of Buea Cameroon. I joined open source last year and i am completely in love with it my way of giving back to the community. I will love to contribute to this organization Sir/Madam cause i see it as a means to enhance my skills and get experience in order to help others. I have a very good knowledge of C, python , CSS3, HTML5 , JavaScript , PHP and a little java and golang. While here i would love to learn more and give in my best. Also i am interested in participating in this years GSoC with you guys. I am very much interested in the project WebHooks for XWiki. I would love to work on this very much as i love APIs and have had to implement them in the past using php , laravel framework. I am very curious on how to get started can anyone point me. Also i forked the xwiki/xwiki-platform already. I am a newbie around please will require a little assistance on how to get started thatnks

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