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[xwiki-devs] Switching from semantic media wiki to xwiki

by Beebe, Mary J

Xwiki developers, Our company develops wikis. We set up the core wiki, and then write extensions to add specific tools depending on the subject of the wiki . All of our wikis have been developed with the MediaWiki platform, which is written in PHP and prefers the mySQL database. We need to convert over to a Java and Oracle solution; XWiki is a contender for us. To help us decide on xWiki, Do you mind answering a few questions for us such as the following? 1. One advantage of wikis for us is the revision history, fast creation of content, media uploads, and the user management. Are these things solved well with xwiki? 2. We need to add some custom tables to the wiki database and then save to those tables from a page form. Is that possible? 3. We need to develop forms for particular categories. The fields within the forms will be saved to your tables and our custom tables. Is this possible? 4. It looks like xWiki has components. We are just starting to experiment with your components. Are they helpful with your product? 5. Do you have hooks in the code or other possibilities to extend code without changing it? 6. Is it possible to change core code? User mark up differences between your xWiki and mediaWiki is not a big factor for us. Thanks, Mary

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[xwiki-devs] HTML form which redirects user to UNC folder

by Hamster

Hi, I am creating an HTML form which should redirect a user to an UNC folder after they have clicked on a button. I got everything setup, but the $response.sendRedirect($folder) doesn't open the folder. If I just put $folder on the page, it shows the UNC-path (and when I click that link, it takes me to that folder) So I know that the link $folder is correct...but how can I open that folder automaticly? Should I be using redirect or something else? -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/HTML-form-which-redirects-user-to-UNC-fol… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Iteration] Solr Search Proposal 2

by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

Hi devs, This is an _alternative_ proposal to what is currently implemented in our Solr Search. For the current implementation there is another proposal [1] that is already partially integrated. The current Solr implementation is focused on Facets search. This means that not all possible filters are revealed, but just those that match the current query, letting the user narrow the results. This alternative proposal will display all the possible filters and will let the user make his own selections instead of auto-selecting for him. This proposal is inspired from JIRA's filters. Although being able to customize and to refine the filters to exactly what you need will be great for developers and advanced users, please keep in mind that normal users will be more comfortable with the faceted search since it's more 'standard' in the wild (in the e-commerce and product-related websites). Advanced user know exactly what they want in comparison with normal users that rely on the first 3 results. You can see a screenshot at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/SearchProposal… and read the whole proposal at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SearchProposal3 Thanks, Caty [1] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/du4dknibbgxx6pdn

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 5.0.2 released

by Thomas Mortagne

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 5.0.2. This is a bugfix release for the 5.0.x cycle. The blocking bugs that leaded to this release are about PostgreSQL support and new multiwiki behavior. You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download (please allow a few hours for the binaries to propagate to the download servers if the download doesn't work yet) Make sure to review the release notes: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki502 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Reminder] BFD #22 today

by Vincent Massol

Hi everyone, Today is BFD22. Our goal is still to have more bugs closed than created for the past 1000 days! http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Some stats: - BFD 19: 53 bugs behind before it started - BFD 20: 36 bugs behind before it started - BFD 21: 39 bugs behind before it started - BFD 22: 20 bugs behind, so we're catching up! Let's try to close the gap during this BFD. Here's the BFD#22 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11593 Let's close the gap, we could even close it today if we're good enough! Thanks -Vincent

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 4.5.4 released

by Sergiu Dumitriu

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 4.5.4. This is a bugfix release for the 4.5.x cycle, hopefully the last on the 4.x cycle. Affected areas include the distribution wizard and the extension manager, Internet Explorer compatibility, Oracle and PostgreSQL compatibility, and multiwiki improvements. You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download (please allow a few hours for the binaries to propagate to the download servers if the download doesn't work yet) Make sure to review the release notes: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki453 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [QA] Feedback for 5.1 M1

by Manuel Smeria

Hi devs, XWiki 5.1 Milestone 1 is going to be released the next Monday. We'll go through the list of bugs fixed for 5.1 M1 and try to validate as many as we can. Besides those, do you want us to test some specific issues or features ? Thank you, Manuel

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Reminder] BFD #21

by Vincent Massol

Hi devs, This is our 21st BFD! Here's the jira dashboard: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11591 Our status before we start it (on 1000 days): - 2337 created - 2298 resolved => 39 behind Some stats: - BFD 19: 53 bugs behind before it started - BFD 20: 36 bugs behind before it started So we "lost" 3 bugs during the week, not that bad considering lots of issues where open. I've seen Marius close quite a few this week, thanks for that Marius! :) Ok let's try to win some bugs so that during the next BFD we're at less than 39! Have a good BFD today! -Vincent

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Account on nexus.xwiki.org

by Mircea Staicu

Hello, As stated in this <http://contrib.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome>document, on the Release the project section, can I ask for the creation of an account on nexus.xwiki.org? Regards, Mircea

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib] Requesting the creation of a new repo for the Tooltip Macro extension

by Mircea Staicu

Hello, I would like to request the creation of a new repo on xwiki-contrib to host the Tooltip macro extension which is already up here<http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Tooltip+Macro>. You can find my profile here <https://github.com/mstaicu/>. Regards, Mircea

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] archlinux native packages

by Frédéric Bouquet

Hi, I've just built two packages for archlinux, one concerning xwiki-enterprise, the other xwiki-manager. To install xwiki : yaourt -S xwiki-enterprise or yaourt -S xwiki-manager Packages are here : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xwiki-enterprise/ and here : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xwiki-manager/ What about creating a repository for them on xwiki-contrib, for example : archlinux-packages ? If someone create the repo, I'll upload files tomorrow. -- Frédéric Bouquet Twitter/Github : bouquetf http://www.espacedefouille.org/

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [QA] Feedback for 5.0.2

by Manuel Smeria

Hello, I know XWiki 5.0.2 is scheduled to be released within the next days. I noticed there's no Release Notes page for it on xwiki.org. Besides the usual list of issues fixed for it do you want some other features tested as well ? Thanks, Remus :)

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [QA] Feedback for 4.5.4

by Manuel Smeria

Hi, XWiki 4.5.4 is going to be released this week. I've already gone through some Jira issues fixed for it<http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/TestReports/ManualTestReportXWiki454#HJ…> and I've started a full manual test on the latest snapshot. More information on what has been tested is available here<http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/TestReports/ManualTestReportXWiki454Sum…>. Do you want something else tested for it ? Thanks, Remus

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Notice] Documentation for our @Unstable annotation

by Vincent Massol

FTR I've just documented the Unstable annotation here: * http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#H40Unsta… * http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/API Note that I'm not especially fond/proud of the max time strategy we have since it can lead to APIs staying for 2 years but at least it makes it easy to implement by checking for @unstable before each "N Milestone 1" release. Another option would be to automate the check in a Maven plugin (by reading annotation and then reading @since javadoc tag) and keep @unstable code only for , say, 6 major releases (which corresponds to 1 cycle length). Thanks -Vincent

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Notice] Moving Solr search pages to a separate space

by Marius Dumitru Florea

I'm going to perform the following rename. XWiki.SolrSearchAdmin -> Solr.Administration Main.SolrSearch -> Solr.WebHome and I'm going to add Solr.Translations . Let me know if you think this is a bad move, Marius

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [SRD] Some broken pages

by Jeremie BOUSQUET

Hi all, I found some broken links in the SRD page on xwiki.org [1]. Say, for example, when clicking on $services.localization: Not Found The requested URL /site/docs/xwiki-javadoc-4.1.x/org/xwiki/localization/script/internal/LocalizationScriptService.html was not found on this server. BR, Jeremie [1] - http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD/Navigation?xpage=embed> /Navigation?xpage=embed<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/SRD/Navigation?xpage=embed>

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Make it simpler to configure XWiki when there's only 1 wiki

by Vincent Massol

Hi devs, Now that the virtual mode is on by default our users are having troubles when they install 5.0.1. It's the second time in 2 days that I have to help someone. The issue is that users will want to use URLs such: http://myhost/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome And those URLs don't work anymore by default (which can be seen as a regression). So I'm proposing the following change for 5.0.2/5.1M1: * If there's only 1 wiki configured then always point to the main wiki. WDYT? We need to make it easy again to use XWiki initially. Thanks -Vincent

12 years, 3 months

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[xwiki-devs] User Directory - Organogram

by Hamster

It is possible to use the XWikiUserClass for an organogram? Example <http://blog.i-love-it.be/useruploads/18/images/organogram_5bi.png> I would love to make an organogram, and populate it with the profile picture and other info (department, phone number, ect) This way, new people in our organisation can just look at the organogram to see who is who! :-) -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/User-Directory-Organogram-tp7584711.html Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center

by Flower Platform Team

Hello GSoC Mentors, As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students. Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools (Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little bit on code as well). We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic (i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3]. If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by Flower Dev Center? REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc. REMARK2: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers. REMARK3: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0 Thank you in advance! Best regards, Mircea @ The Flower Platform Team. [1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com [2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_de… [3] - Text version with same content as the above video - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower…

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Iteration] Solr Search Interface

by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

Hi devs, This is an iteration based on the current work done on the Solr Search. You can view some overview mockups at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/SolrSearch/ove… http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/SolrSearch/ove… For more detailed mockups, see the proposal http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/SolrSearch This proposal is keeping all the implemented functionality, adds some styling and changes a bit the facets zone. Next step, I want to iterate a bit on some filter elements, but the layout shouldn't suffer changes. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Caty

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Solution to make it easy to debug JS in XWiki

by Vincent Massol

Hi devs, ATM the solution is described here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Debugging#HDebuggingJavaScript What would you think about doing this instead: * Package both the minimized and the non minimized version in our WAR (it shouldn't add too much weight to our overall WAR size) * Have a directory structure like this: resources/.../<module>/ |_ <non minified js file here> |_ min/<minified js files here> * This would allow to put in our xwikivars.vm something like (pseudo code): #if ("$!request.minify" == 'false') #set ($jsDir = '/') #else #set ($jsDir = 'min/' #end * Then everywhere we reference JS files we use $jsDir. For example in attachmentsinline.vm: $xwiki.jsfx.use('uicomponents/widgets/${jsDir}upload.js', {'forceSkinAction': true, 'language': ${xcontext.language}}) … This would allow to remove the "debug" profile and make it much faster to debug XWiki issues, even in production systems. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Feedback] Search Requirements

by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

Hi, We introduced in XWiki 4.3 a new experimental search based on Apache Solr [A] . Right now our Solr Search [B] is marked as experimental and I don't know how many of you got a chance to play a bit with it. In order for it to become default we need to make sure we are covering the major use cases. So in this mail we should provide some feedback on what is really needed from a relevance, user experience, performance, etc. point of view. I am very interested also in some general feedback on the Lucene Search: major problems you had with it and limitations. The following questions are mostly related to Solr Search: 1) The Solr implementation adds a 'Filtered Search'. Are all filters that are available now needed (wiki, space, type, filetype)? Are we missing some? What is the most important one? Should we have multiple select? >From a technical point of view we could add a lot of things (object properties, query boost, etc.) but I'm more interested, in production, what are some advanced or common use cases of search usage. IMO our Lucene implementation is too simplistic, but it would be a shame to add useless complexity to the Solr one if we really don't need it. On the other hand having a customizable search is a really nice thing. The customization part is kind of complex, but also the most powerful. I want to know how much would we need the ability to explicitly mention the types of results we want vs. excluding things, etc. 2) The Solr search adds a 'Sort' feature. What do you think about that? 3) Search result metadatas: should we display the relevance? What other information should be displayed besides name, location, type? 4) Other mentions. Having a generic search is more complex, than knowing exactly what your search needs to return. We need to make sure we don't add too many niche things while keeping the functionality satisfiable for general use cases. Thanks, Caty --------------- [A] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki43#HExper… [B] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Solr+Search+Application

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Introduce a new API method in order to be able to check an user password

by Thomas Delafosse

Hello all, I've been working on some improvements on user changing password (see XWiki-6882). In particular, I tried to make mandatory, for an user wanting to change his password, to submit also his current password, so that I could check it. The problem is that there is no way to make this check through velocity. I tried to use some groovy instead, but it breaks the functional tests. So I need to introduce a new method "checkPassword" accessible from velocity scripts. The question is, where should I implement it ? There are two possibilities 1) Wrote a new component 2) Add this method in an existing API. I don't really like 1), as I feel it would be strange to introduce a new service with only one method. In the meanwhile, for 2), I don't really know in which API this method could fit. Sergiu told me that I could perhaps put it in com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.rightsmanager.RightsManagerPluginApi, but that it wasn't really good either. Any ideas ? Cheers, Thomas

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Override the HTML macro in platform

by Thomas Delafosse

Hi all, For security reasons, I would like to be able to perform some rights checking in the HTML macro (i.e I would like to forbid use of scripts to untrusted users). But as the HTML macro is currently defined only in xwiki-rendering, I can't do anything like that (xwiki-rendering should be independent from the platform). So, I would like to override the HTML macro in platform, in order to be able to perform the security checks I want. Does this seems acceptable to you ? Thanks, Thomas

12 years, 4 months

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Move Document Events from bridge to model module

by Vincent Massol

Hi devs, I'd like to copy all Document*Event in xwiki-platform-model/src/main/java/org/xwiki/model/event/* and deprecate (move to legacy) all the ones in the bridge module. It seems they don't need XWikiContext, XWikiDocument or the like so it should be pretty easy. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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