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[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Make it more visible that XWiki can be deploy easily in the cloud
by Vincent Massol 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi devs, I was checking the download page of jenkins at https://jenkins.io/download/ and I found that it’s easy to find the install/download that matches the user’s need since all options are listed on that page (deploy on azure, get a docker image, etc). On xwiki.org we have 2 buttons: Try Now + Download. I’m under the impression that the “Try Now” is not very appealing for users who want to install XWiki or get it in the cloud. I have the feeling that having a single Download button listing all options would be a better thing. In addition I also have the feeling that it would better to let the user choose the packaging before choosing the XWiki version since right now users need to choose the version before being offered the different packagings. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-notifications] Xwiki
by Vincent Massol 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi, Please don’t post on the notifications and devs mailing lists. Those are reserved mailing lists. Please repost on the forum instead, see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Discuss Thanks -Vincent > On 30 May 2017, at 19:34, andreea.avram22 <andreea.avram22(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > I created a class with more attributes which represent the columns of a table. I need to write data in that table and also to get data from the table such that i will can compute an average for example (with that values) and after that i want to put/write the result in the same table. > The page I have created using the class contains the attributes of the class, which I can modify, but I need the table. > So, my question is: > How can I make the table such that I will can write in it and get data from it? Also, how can I export that table as pdf document? > > Thank you! > > Trimis de pe smartphone-ul meu Samsung Galaxy.

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.4 released
by Guillaume Delhumeau 29 May '17

29 May '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.4. This releases is mostly focused on usability improvements. It adds support for batch restore of deleted pages from the recycle bin. The content menu has received some polishing. The live notification system has been improved to group similar notification messages and to show notifications for page comments. The history of an extension page now includes a special revision that corresponds to the extension version so it is easier to "reset to factory defaults". Finally, the Help Center and the Menu application are now part of the default XWiki distribution. As usual, this version also brings bug corrections. 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/Data/XWiki/9.4/ Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Move the events RSS feed management from ActivityStream to the EventStream extension
by Clément Aubin 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi everyone ! By working on XWIKI-14289 (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14289) I found out that the WatchList extension currently uses deprecated features of the ActivityStream extension such as ActivityStreamPlugin and ActivityStreamPluginApi in order to render events as a proper RSS feed. As using deprecated APIs isn’t the perfect way to extend the platform features, I was thinking about adapting the RSS feed management capabilities currently present in the ActivityStream to the EventStream extension. This would allow us to progressively move the internal event management of the platform to the EventStream. What do you think ? FYI, the question of "What should we do of the ActivityStream extension ?" has already been raised here : http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Proposal-Implement-a-Notification-Center-…, but didn’t came to a clear conclusion. It could also be nice to finally decide how we want to share the platform event management system between the EventStream and the ActivityStream. Thanks, -- Clément Aubin Web Developer Intern @XWiki SAS clement.aubin(a)xwiki.com More about us at http://www.xwiki.com

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[xwiki-devs] XWiki Development Question
by Stefan Platon 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hello. I've made a class with some properties and some pages as well, following the steps in the documentation. Now I want to access those pages and their properties (which have values) from another page and I can't figure out how. I tried the code from http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAddobjectstoapa… but it doesn't seem to work (it can't find the object or see the values). I also don't quite grasp the difference between space, page, document and object.

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[xwiki-devs] Xwiki Development Question
by Stefan Platon 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hello. Could you tell me how can I take some values from an html form and set them to a xwiki class' attributes? Thank you.

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#142
by Alexandru Cotiuga 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hello devs, Today is BFD#143: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status for the 500 days period is 47 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=103 52#Created-vs-Resolved-Chart/16742 Here's the BFD#143 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13895 Happy BugFixing Day, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] GitHub code reviews and protected branches
by Sergiu Dumitriu 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hi devs, A while ago GitHub introduced several features that I think can help boost even more the code quality, reduce the bus factor, and make it more attractive to contribute to the project. = Protected branches = Branches can be configured as protected in several ways: * Require pull request reviews before merging ** no direct commits are allowed, everything must go through a pull request ** a pull request must be reviewed by at least one other trusted committer before it is allowed to be merged * Require status checks to pass before merging ** pull requests must pass automated checks, for example by being successfully built by a CI service * Restrict who can push to this branch ** official branches (master + stable-x.y) could be restricted to approved committers, but we could grant write access to all other interested developers more easily = Reviews for pull requests = Comments on all commits as well on pull requests have been supported since the early days of GitHub, but more recently it is easier to submit (and request) actual reviews for pull requests. Instead of simply commenting, and changing that special field on Jira, an official pull request status is supported, with three states: - review required - changes requested - approved PR authors can either await for reviews from anybody, or request someone in particular for a review. Committers can filter PRs by their status, and they can also show only the PRs that require their review. = Getting more eyeballs on the code = As Linus' Law states, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". We've been experimenting with mandatory pull requests for a while in my other XWiki-based project, with great success so far. So here's a proposal for a different development workflow: 1. Set up 2 teams, one with master (senior) committers, fully vetted committers that have proven they understand the XWiki code, as well as the XWiki product, and one with junior committers 2. Protect the master branch. Require pull requests and reviews before any code is merged in it. Restrict push only to the master committers. 3. Everybody works on separate branches 4. Once the code is almost done, make a pull request and require reviews from two junior committers 4a. Or, instead of requesting, let committers volunteer themselves, but it's less likely that someone will volunteer on time 5. The junior committers must then carefully review the code, and either require changes, just comment, or approve the pull request 6. Once the junior committers have approved the pull request, the PR author must request review from a senior committer 7. The senior committer can either approve and merge the pull request, or send it back to step 3. e. We can define allowed exceptions: don't require PRs from senior committers if the fixes are really small and obvious, like fixing typos, or small and important bugfixes that must be merged quickly, but these should really be rare exceptions While it does sound like more work for an already overworked team, this has many benefits: * the code will have better quality * awareness of: ** what's new / changing ** how others are approaching a problem (especially juniors learning from seniors by being exposed to more code) ** the existing code, since the codebase is large and otherwise people have few occasions to look at many of the parts of XWiki * this means a larger bus factor for new code, and slowly increasing it for existing code that's being touched by one and reviewed by many * theoretically, less time spent doing reviews, since all committers should look over every commit anyway, but this way they are explicitly told when they should look, instead of wasting time reviewing work in progress * larger community, since people can more quickly become junior committers instead of having to invest many months of years of forkwork before committership * easier collaboration on code, since it's very hard to work on someone else's fork branches, but easy to work on an origin branch So, what do you think? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Removed deprecated "Panels.SpaceDocs", "Panels.Spaces", "Main.Spaces" and "Main.SpaceIndex"
by Vincent Massol 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hi devs, We have this jira issue I created a while ago and I’d like to move forward: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13101 I have one question: Should we move the 4 pages into a legacy module in platform and bundle it in XE or just remove them? My POV: We could consider the pages as APIs I guess and use the API strategy of moving deprecated APIs to legacy. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.4 Release Candidate 1 released
by Marius Dumitru Florea 23 May '17

23 May '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.4 Release Candidate 1. This release adds support for batch restore of deleted pages from the recycle bin. The content menu has received some usability improvements. The live notification system has been improved to group similar notification messages and to show notifications for page comments. The history of an extension page now includes a special revision that corresponds to the extension version. The Help Center and the Menu application are now part of the default XWiki distribution. 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/Data/XWiki/9.4RC1/ Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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