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[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Enable notifications about XWiki pages by default
by Guillaume Delhumeau 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Hi devs. This vote is about enabling notifications about "page" events (create, update, delete, comment) by default, for both notification menu and emails. I think it is important since watchlist is replaced by notifications in the next version. If the user does not enable it, then even if there is a bridge between the watchlist preferences and the notifications, she won't receive emails anymore. Moreover, it makes this feature more discoverable (for sure!). Here is my +1. Thanks, PS: my plan was initially to have it for 10.1RC1 and 9.11.3. Regarding the time-frame, I'm not sure we can do it for 10.1RC1. So either we do it for 10.1 final or 10.2RC1. -- 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] [Brainstorming] LaTeX Renderer - Styling
by Vincent Massol 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Hi devs, I’m currently working on improving our TeX renderer (which is really a POC ATM), in an effort to see if it could be used to generate nice PDF exports (you generate LaTeX and then you convert to PDF). The main issue is that LaTeX doesn’t have any technology for applying style to it (like CSS has for HTML). In addition I wasn’t able to find any good HTML+CSS to TeX converter (as we have for PDFs with XSLT+FOP). So right now my idea is to implement some default behavior in the Tex Renderer (that could be configured globally in xwiki.properties and/or in the Admin UI) and give the ability to override specifically in the content. For example, imagine that you need to decide how to position table column content (left, centered, right) or whether the rows and/or columns of your table have vertical and horizontal lines (or other configs, autowrap, etc). The idea is that the Tex Renderer would support some custom tex-specific parameters. For example: (% tex-table-spec=“c | c | c" tex-table-floating="true" tex-table-caption="caption" %) |=A|=B (% tex-table-row-ending="\hline" %)|a|b (by default the table spec would be left aligned with vertical lines, and rows would be separated by horizontal lines). If you have some comments or ideas, please let me know. Inventing a CSS-like mechanism would just be too hard to implement IMO. Thanks -Vincent PS: If you want to see table options in LaTeX, see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#166
by Alex Cotiugă 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

Hello devs, This Thursday is BFD#166: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status is: * -88 bugs over 365 days (1 year) * -69 bugs over 500 days (between 1 and 2 years) * -281 bugs over 1600 days (4.3 years) * -682 bugs since the beginning of XWiki See https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Here's the BFD#166 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13950 Happy Bug Fixing Day, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [IDEA] Create an extension point for the Help application
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

We would need an extension point inside the Help application content in order for the applications to insert their documentation, usage, actions, etc. There are several use cases that would need an extension point inside the Help application: - Templates section: some templates might want to promote themselves with previews; - Macros section: same; - Applications section: same; - Help Homepage -- Tours: there is a proposal that adds a Tour section that lists the available Tours, see http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/MultiPageTours/helpHome… and http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/MultiPageTours#HHelpTours -- Scripting Documentation Application http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Scripting%20Documentat… could insert itself inside Help section, instead of AppBar. - Not sure if extension points also apply for Sandbox and XWiki Syntax, or if these should be just moved here. WDYT? Thanks, Caty

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Menus vs Panels
by Thomas Mortagne 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

+1 Le 12 févr. 2018 1:51 PM, "Vincent Massol" <vincent(a)massol.net> a écrit : Hi devs, I’m following up from the http://markmail.org/message/zegx62ogtq5evbsy thread and creating a new one since this is a side topic. The idea is that right now when the user needs to create side content (ie Panels), it’s confusing since they can use either the Panels app or Menu app. I have the following proposal: Separate the apps * Keep the 2 concepts of Panels and Menus and make them separate: Use the Menu app for creating menus and the Panel app for creating panels * Remove the ability to create panels from the Menu app * Improve the Panel app to make it simpler to create panels ** Introduce a new xproperty for the panel title (and supporting scripting, could be a text area). ** If the panel xproperty content is empty then don’t display the title. This is to no loose the ability to have panels displayed only if some conditions are met. ** Display panel content textarea in WYSIWYG to make it simple for new admins to create panels. * Note that this solves issue https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10112 since we already have a Panel Wizard! * If we want, we can also easily introduce the concept of visibility for panels. WDYT? Do you see any use case that wouldn’t be covered? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [GSoC] XWiki has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2018 mentor organization!
by Eduard Moraru 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hi devs, As most of you already know, XWiki has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018! We currently have 12 project proposals and 8 mentors [1]. There is 1 month left [2] before the student application period begins, so if others want to sign up as mentors and/or propose new GSoC projects for the students, please do so on the ideas list [1]. During this period, students are supposed to ask questions about the proposed projects so please don`t hesitate to welcome and help them out! Another thing you can help with is to increase the list of "Trivial" issues that we know about on jira.xwiki.org. You can to set the "Difficulty" field of a jira issues to "Trivial" if you know for a fact that it would be something easy for someone new to XWiki to fix. We`re currently using a JIRA filter [3] to gather all these "Trivial" issues and listing them on the guidelines [4] page to help students discover them more easily. Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] http://gsoc.xwiki.org [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [3] https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=10534 [4] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HIncreasi…

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[xwiki-devs] [IDEA] Remove Bundled applications from the Recommended definition
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

There are several applications that are listed in the Recommended extensions, but meanwhile they were bundled in Platform. According to the Definition of a Recommended Extension [1] they should be not removed from the Recommended list. Examples of applications: - CKEditor - Help Application - Templates Application - Menu Application - Tour Application - Syntax Highlighting Application Maybe we kept them to promote them or because we forgot. Also there is no list on e.x.o with the bundled applications. Would that be useful? Still kind of hard to differentiate between user related applications and very technical bundled applications. Let me know what you think, Caty [1] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/RecommendedExtensi…

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Switch to USER for the default visiblity for translations + extend to all component-based pages
by Vincent Massol 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Hi, Right now we have: xclass.addStaticListField(TranslationDocumentModel.TRANSLATIONCLASS_PROP_SCOPE, "Scope", "GLOBAL|WIKI|USER|ON_DEMAND”); However for wiki macros for example we have: xclass.addStaticListField(MACRO_VISIBILITY_PROPERTY, "Macro visibility", 1, false, "Current User|Current Wiki|Global", ListClass.DISPLAYTYPE_SELECT, PROPERTY_PIPE); The rationale is that it’s safe to use USER first to try out and then to extend to Wiki or Global if it’s working fine. So I’d suggest to change the default visibility for wiki translations to USER and more generally to do this for all component-based xobjects. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] BaseObject ID collisions
by Marc Sladek 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Dear XWiki devs We are using the XWiki platform for our applications but sadly are still stuck with 2.7.2. Lately we ran into issues on a large database and noticed "disappearing" BaseObjects. We were able to link it to XWIKI-6990 <http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-6990>, where hibernate IDs collided (hash collisions) and overwrote other objects without any trace - neither visible in the history nor in a log file. We analysed your implemented solution from 4.0+ in XWikiDocument <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/stable-8.4.x/xwiki-platform-co…> and BaseElement <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/stable-8.4.x/xwiki-platform-co…> and noticed that you changed the 32bit String#hashCode to 64bit MD5, which makes a collision less likely. I have a few questions regarding your solution: 1) Is there any specific reason why you have chosen MD5 over SHA-1 or 2? 2) Collisions are still possible and would be extremely hard to notice since they are completely silent. Have you considered to implement a collision detection to at least log occurring collisions - or even better reserve 1-2bits of the 64bit to be used as collision counter in the case of it happening? 3) To question the concept of generating a hash for an ID in general: Wouldn't a database defined "auto increment" be a much more robust solution for the hibernate IDs? A collision would be impossible and clustering/scalability is still possible with e.g. the InnoDB “interleaved” autoincrement lock mode. Why have you chosen a hash based solution in the first place? I'm sorry if these questions were already answered in the dev mailing list or on issues, please link me to them since I couldn't find any concrete answers. Thanks for your time and regards Marc Sladek synventis gmbh

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#165
by Alex Cotiugă 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hello devs, This Thursday is BFD#165: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status is: * -95 bugs over 365 days (1 year) * -67 bugs over 500 days (between 1 and 2 years) * -281 bugs over 1600 days (4.3 years) * -685 bugs since the beginning of XWiki See https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Here's the BFD#165 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13949 Happy Bug Fixing Day, Alex

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