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by Ludovic Dubost

Here is a status on the development towards the next release, which should be the one of the very last release before 1.0. The following major feature have been added to the current SVN version Thanks to the Summer of Code we have now - a WYSIWYG Editor - a Chart Wizard - a new Query Language Additionnally we have: - a new title field and different rendering of document names in links and in the header - a backlinks feature (activated using xwiki.backlinks=1 in xwiki.cfg) - a custom mapping feature allowing to store XWiki Objects in flat tables for advanced developments - new storage of XWiki classes definition in the xwikidoc table instead of multiple tables - the XWiki Preferences now use a custom mapping for better performance - lot's of bug fixes, incl. access through proxies, issues with the multilingual feature - an import/export API (for backups and for XWiki applications) which is needed for the Import/Export XWiki page - improvements to the URL scheme which will allow to reduce the number of elements in the xwiki URLs (currently some XWiki features still need xwiki to run on the /xwiki/ path) These are a lot of new features which needs to be well tested before become fully usable. Most of the features can be deactivated or are backwards compatible. We would need some help from the XWiki community to test this new version and report any issues in JIRA ( http://jira.xwiki.org ). Except for the preferences storage and the xwiki classes definition storage, it is possible to revert to an older version even if running the new version. Now it is highly recommended to backup your database and test with care on production data. I'm planning to provide a test build for developers, but if you want to test right away, you will need to build XWiki from the SVN code. The plan for getting XWiki to 1.0 is: - bug fixing - bug fixing - documentation - very small missing features - bug fixing - documentation - revamp of the XWiki interface according to the Usability report done during the summer - bug fixing - documentation Any help or comments is welcome. For now it would be usefull to identify bugs that would absolutely need to be fixed before releasing this version to replace 0.9.840. The objective is to provide an improvement versus 0.9.840 and allow working with the new features, not necessarily to provide a perfect version. Thanks and happy testing Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic

19 years, 7 months

Bounties

by Stéphane Laurière

What about adding a permanent XWiki bounties section, to somehow perpetuate the idea of the Google Summer of Code in the fall? This page pointed out by Marc gives a structured bounty process: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties/document_view I'd be happy to sponsor a few ones if this makes sense to you too. By the way, since the move from SourceForge to ObjectWeb, is there still a way to make donations to the project? Stéphane

19 years, 8 months

Excel on the web...

by Vincent Massol

Hi there, Check this: http://numsum.com/ Idea: Create a xwiki plugin so that xwiki users can share a spreadsheet in the form of a xwiki page. -Vincent

19 years, 8 months

FIX: XWiki-169 Error: missing exoplatform environment class

by Jim Stuttard

build.xml builds the exo fileset with the xwiki-normal.cfg into the xwiki-N.N.N.war and xwiki.war targets and vice versa into xwiki-exo-N.N.N.war. Jim -- Jim Stuttard

19 years, 8 months

xwiki build.139 Build Fixed

by ludovic＠xwiki.org

View results here -> http://build.xpertnet.biz/cc/buildresults/xwiki?log=log20051001194251Lbuild…

19 years, 8 months

IntelliJ svn checkout fails

by Yves Langisch

Hi, I'm just trying to check out the actual xwiki source with IntelliJ 5.0.1. I can browse the repository but when I want to checkout IntelliJ says: Cannot checkout from svn: Unknown command 'get- locations'. Is this an IntelliJ or svn repository problem? Thanks Yves

19 years, 8 months

xwiki Build Failed

by ludovic＠xwiki.org

View results here -> http://build.xpertnet.biz/cc/buildresults/xwiki?log=log20050930140456

19 years, 8 months

xwiki build.138 Build Successful

by ludovic＠xwiki.org

View results here -> http://build.xpertnet.biz/cc/buildresults/xwiki?log=log20050930051148Lbuild…

19 years, 8 months

Behaviour when adding a property

by Yves Langisch

I defined a class with several properties and I created some documents based on this class. Now I added some new properties to this class but I'm not able to supplement the new properties in the existing objects (field is read-only, no input field). When I create a new one the property can be set. Is this a normal behaviour? Yves

19 years, 8 months

This month is DOC month - I'll take a lead.

by Cody Burleson

XTeam: I hope you don't mind me giving you a name. :-) Sort of like the "A-Team". I hope it gives you a sense of pride. You are working on one very important software system. Why? Because Xwiki answers certain to needs that no other wiki does. In this respect, it is trully a unique system that has both great capability now and extraordinary promise for the future. A few noteworthy facts: Siebel Systems is using XWiki. Siebel is a worldwide leader in customer relationship management systems. More than one team at IBM leverages XWiki. IBM is a world leader in software, hardware, and business consulting services. XWiki has even taken life inside of the corporate offices of UPS, the worlds largest package delivery company. Give yourselves a big pat on the back! But not too big; I need your help. I have only recently joined the "XTeam" and my first goal is to fill a task that many do not often enjoy - creating and editing documentation. I do not necessarily enjoy writing documents, but I know that the importance of good documentation is too often overlooked. I believe that good documentation will help the evolution of XWiki more potently than most realize. I believe that... People judge XWiki before even trying it based soley on the quality of the documentation. First impressions are critical. If administrators have a poor installation experience (due to poor docs, for example), they will be disenchanted immediately. Innovative developers who can bring powerful enhancements to XWiki can bring those improvements faster if we decrease the initial learning curve through solid documentation. Open source projects are typically poor in documentation. Thus, we can look at this as a lesson and strive to use this as a point of great differentiation. My goal over the coming month is to play a strong role in transforming the User Guide and Administrator Guide. To achieve this goal, I pledge to work on documentation a little bit each day. Afterwards, I will probably roll into the usability and user interface focus. Until then, i hope you will accept me as a workhorse for you. Here's how you can help me (and the XWiki evolution): 1. Take a little time out to reflect on some things you have learned about XWiki and document them in the new guide areas. DEV GUIDE: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WebHome ADMIN GUIDE: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/WebHome 2. Feel free to send rough notes, comments, or thoughts to me and I will do the dirty work of cleaning them up and finding an adequate home for them in the guides, 3. Explore the organization of the new guides. Look for empty holes. Ask yourself what you might be able to contribute there and contribute something if you can. I am sure that before the month is over, we may reorganize the guides more than once just to get them "just right", so expect to see some changes and some movement of documents. Ludovic has already gotten a reorg started; it isn't perfect, but it is better. Progress must be iterative. Expect frequent questions from me here as I struggle to learn and ensure accuracy of the documentation. At a minimum, please remember that source code documentation can be extremely valuable for other XTeam members. Otherwise, just keep up the great work on the software and do what you can to review and improve the accuracy of the new docs that will be going up over the month (as time permits). ================================== Cody Burleson cburleso(a)us.ibm.com

19 years, 8 months

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