November 2010 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] [myxwiki] new wiki request
by Pascal Venier 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hello, I would like to use this wiki for the purpose of exchanging informations with colleagues involved in a collaborative research project in my university and abroad. my user name is pascalvenier I would like to use the following server name for the wiki: complexite Merci d'avance. Pascal

2 2

[xwiki-users] Unexpected 'Order By' Results
by Chris Wagner 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hello, I am having some issues with the "order by" clause in HQL - the following query: $xwiki.searchDocuments("where doc.hidden = false and doc.id='${doc.parent}' order by doc.title asc") is returning the expected set of documents, but the title order is erratic. The documents are reordered, but it is not alphabetized as anticipated. Instead, there are several alphabetized "spurts" -- for example, I have 'A', 'C', 'P', ... 'A', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', etc. Within one of these spans, no items appear out of order, but the 'span' separation is not expected or desired. Is there a common issue that I could be overlooking? Thank you, Chris -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Unexpected-Order-By-Results-tp5702753p570… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

4 7

[xwiki-users] XWiki Enterprise 2.5.1 and Enterprise Manager 2.5.1 Released
by Sergiu Dumitriu 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 2.5.1 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 2.5.1. These are bugfix releases on the 2.5 branch. The highlights of this release are: fixed and improved the PDF export, fixed broken images from the office importer, fixed a severe performance problem with many blog categories, and fixed broken scheduler functionality. For more information, see the full release notes at: - http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise251. - http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/ReleaseNotesXEM251. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

1 0

[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 2.6 RC1 Released
by Vincent Massol 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 2.6 RC1. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download Changes from 2.5: * Revamped Recent Activity Dashboard * Icon/Emoticon Support * Auto linking of WikiWords * New Recent Activity Macro For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise26RC1 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

1 0

[xwiki-users] [myxwiki] new wiki request
by Emilie Ogez 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi! The Association Forum Atena <http://www.forumatena.org/> and Aquinetic<http://aquinetic.org/>cooperate on the issue of free software and would like to write a white paper on the subject. They need a wiki for collaborative writing, which could participate XWiki SAS. It could even serve as an example for a successful collaboration. My username: EmilieOgez (I'm already registered on myxwiki.org for colab.myxwiki.org; is it the same login and password?) The name: modelecolibre <http://modelecolibre.org/>.myxwiki.org<http://colibre.myxwiki.org/> Thanks. Emilie OGEZ Marketing & Communication Manager Mob. : +33( 0)623414368 Email : Emilie.Ogez(a)xwiki.com http://www.xwiki.com Me contacter [image: LinkedIn] <http://fr.linkedin.com/in/emilieogez> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/eogez> [image: Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/xwiki> Chat [image: Google Talk/] emilie.marquois(a)gmail.com [image: Skype/]ogez.emilie [image: MSN/] emiemar Our blogs: XWiki vous donne rendez-vous...<http://xfruits.com/eogez/?id=111209&clic=636502974&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedpro…> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/xwiki> Venez découvrir notre nouvelle offre Cloud à ICC, mardi 9 nov, à 12h ! #xwiki #cloud #icc2010 http://twurl.nl/7rs7py Follow @xwiki <http://twitter.com/xwiki> <http://twitter.com/?status=@XWiki%20&in_reply_to_status_id=475148851347457&…> Reply<http://twitter.com/?status=@XWiki%20&in_reply_to_status_id=475148851347457&…> <http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40XWiki%3A%20Venez%20d%C3%A9couvrir%20notr…> Retweet<http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40XWiki%3A%20Venez%20d%C3%A9couvrir%20notr…> 10:10 Nov-05 <http://twitter.com/xwiki/statuses/475148851347457> Get this email app! <http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=email…>

1 0

[xwiki-users] creating a wiki on myxwiki.org
by Pascal Venier 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

This may sound like a daft question and I ask in advance for your forbearance for a neophyte. I am attempting to have a wiki created on myxwiki.org and have followed to the letter the instructions given: "If you’re interested in having a wiki hosted on this farm please send an email to the XWiki user mailing list with a subject of [myxwiki] new wiki request and explaining briefly what you want to use this wiki for (give a brief description). You’ll also need to register on myxwiki.org and give your user name in the mail, as well as the server name you want for your wiki (the name that will be used before .myxwiki.org to access the wiki). Then one of the community Admins will create it for you" However nothings seems to happen. Could someone please be of assitance. Many thanks in advance. Pascal Venier

1 0

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] where to extend XWiki link syntax?
by Vincent Massol 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi Mark, On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:37 AM, mwallace(a)modusoperandi.com wrote: > > Apology for cross posting. > Can someone point me to where in the XWiki code I could implement an > extended XWiki link syntax? E.g. if I'd like to handle something like > this: > Berlin is a city in [[locatedIn::Germany>>Germany]] > where I'm adding the double-colon syntax before the usual link info. This is so cool that you have this need since we've just implemented extensibility for this in XE 2.5+: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5486 The doc is now available at: http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/RenderingModule#HAddinganewLin… Thanks -Vincent

1 0

[xwiki-users] WYSIWYG plugin missing in 2.5?
by Werner Greßhoff 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hello, I've just updated a 2.4 test installation to 2.5 and when accessing the first page I got an exception: the WYSIWYG plugin is missing and so the WYSIWYG editor is disabled. I guessed I should find it in xwiki-web-gwt-wysiwyg-server-2.5.jar but there is no editor class included. In the older versions the class was available?! Is there a quick fix available? Best wishes Werner Greßhoff

2 5

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XE 3.0 and Roadmap leading to it
by Sergiu Dumitriu 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

On 11/01/2010 12:50 PM, Gregory GUENEAU wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am +1 to make stabilization work, on a couple of releases > I am +1 to have soon a 3.0 release > And i am +1 on the content vincent propose > > But my point of view is -1 stepping the release family number because the main purpose of what is discussed here is stabilization, and not showing the path of 3.x family. > > Therefore : > - do we consider a january 2011 release to be stable enough ? > - stabilization work wouldn'it be leading then to the last 2.x version instead of the first 3.x family version ? > - is there behind it a consensus on what we will concentrate our effort in 3.x versions ? I mean thematics we can talk about. > - therefore, are we in a situation where we can vote on the global thematics we will develop in 3.x releases ? > - do we have a clear consensus short list of features that show the path of 3.x family ? > - in consequence of that, is the release content here send a clear message to uneducated publics about what is in this future 3.x versions ? > - do educated people care this much about release number, that we absolutely have to release a 3.0 with the content presented below ? From the committers' point of view, it makes perfect sense for 3.0 to be the culmination of the 2.x releases, but I'm not sure the users understand this as well, so I'm extending the question to the users list. Traditionally, proprietary software is developed behind the curtains, and it's normal to have one big release every two years, with lots of new features and some bugs which get fixed in subsequent bugfix releases. Marketing comes mostly from the proprietary software world, so from a marketing point of view, this is the "normal" way releases work. In the open source world, since the development is done in the open, it doesn't make sense to stash code away in a repository and only release it once every two years. Still, most big projects use a release versioning scheme similar to the proprietary products, but with a slight difference which deeply changes the meaning. While proprietary products use only a number (3, 8, 2010...), with eventual bugfixes versions (SP2, 5.5), open source usually has 3 numbers in its versions, with the following meanings: The first number changes rarely, and when it does, it signals a critical change, like a complete rewrite of the codebase, a change of paradigm, or major new features. The second number is the one that actually identifies a release. The third number is the bugfix version. So, when we say that PHP 5.3.2 was released, we actually say that version 3 of PHP5, which is a different thing than PHP4, has been released again, giving the second bugfix release. KDE 4.5.1 means version 5 of KDE4 saw its first bugfix release. Another tendency is for open source software to linger towards a major release. For example, lots of software have a lot of releases before 1.0, going nearer and nearer: 0.6, 0.9, 0.9.9... And everybody knows that 0.x comes before 1.0, and it's not just a bugfix version of an imaginary 0.0 release. A different topic is that of agile development, with very short releases (2-3 weeks) for which traditional version number make no sense, since such a product would reach version 42 in a couple of years. Either an identifier, such as the SCM version number is used, or a continuous counter (v1.42) is used. Since the software evolves in a fluid manner, without a "breakthrough" version coming out of the regular releases, a "major" version is released when the current features are stable and they mix well together in a coherent product. Since releases come so frequently, it's normal for users to be split into two categories: those that follow the releases and know how the software is evolving, and those that only monitor the major releases, and which see all the continuous improvements at once. While XWiki Enterprise is used in the enterprise environment, and it is backed by commercial companies, it is a true open source project, following an open source release model, so I don't think that a proprietary product release scheme is suited. Our development/release style is closer to the agile development practice, albeit with mixed release types. In the future, once the core is more stable than it is now, we'd like to move even closer to a full agile release process, with 2-3 weeks between final releases. Thus, I believe that the last release versioning strategy is the best for XWiki Enterprise. Note that we're already using this strategy in a more obvious way for smaller modules (applications, skins, tools), where we do have 1.32 as a stable version number. Also note that although 1.9 was followed by 2.0, this was just a coincidence, and not a natural version evolution, since we also felt that the code was mature enough to receive a major number bump, but it could just as well have been followed by a 1.10. So, there are two different opinions here. One that 3.0 should present the groundwork/roadmap for the following 3.x releases, and one that 3.0 should be the culmination of the work done so far on the 2.x releases. The committers (with the exception of Ludovic) believe that the latter is the better one, and it is in accordance with what we've been doing so far. What do our users think? As a final remark, the XWiki Open Source projects are governed by the committers, so in the end the decision lies in the hands of the developers, but we're always open to the larger community. If no consensus is reached about when to release 3.0, we will continue releasing 2.x versions. What do XWiki users think? Is 3.0 as a culmination of the 2.x releases, with no major new features besides what 2.5 already provides, something the community expects? > We have to make 100% sure our message will be understood by market. We are now in the Gartner magic quadrant and will increase our visibility outside the opensource community. In a world where new release number families means : "we show the path of the future of this software, even if the features we present are not perfect", i will strongly promote to answer in details the questions i mentionned before deciding 2.8 to be in fact 3.0. XWiki SAS is in the Gartner report, as a vendor. The XWiki Enterprise project is not in that report. I think the marketing direction that Gregory and Ludovic are supporting is better suited for the company offerings. > Then here is the two elements that are probably the biggest things in the roadmap for 3.x versions : > - going social (workspaces in xem, twitter like app, page stats for the user, etc.) > - going to be an easy place to develop in (extension manager of course, but also documentation for dummies and a first app like "app within minute" proposed by guillaume and strongly needed by our front team) > > Is there a consensus on this list ? Then what should be the "demo" features we could present to be consistent for a 3.0 release ? Yes, these should be central in the future 3.x releases, but not in 3.0, which should be as stable as possible, without any "demo" features. > Best > > > > On 1 nov. 2010, at 09:23, Vincent Massol<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Sergiu started mentioning the idea of a XE 3.0 when we defined the XE 2.6 roadmap. We need a more general agreement that we want a XE 3.0 and how to reach it. >> >> As Sergiu I believe we need a XE 3.0 ASAP for the following reasons: >> >> - it's been a bit more than 1 year since the XE 2.0 release and I feel it's good to have one major release every year >> - we've added **lots** of features since XE 2.0. Check http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotes to get a feeling >> - it's good for open source marketing >> >> Before being able to release XE 3.0 I think: >> >> - XE 2.6 is already planned for the 18th of November (with "mail this page" and "recent activity" features + icon/emoticon and wikiword support that was sneaked in surreptitiously) >> - We should have a XE 2.7 release (1 month duration, ie leading us to the 18th of December) to finish started stuff: >> -- Finish the Gadget integration since it's been started already and it's important. That said I'd actually be ok to not finish it if we think it's too much to release XE 3.0 quickly according to the dates below. Anca to tell us if it's possible in the timeframe. >> -- First working extension manager that can be used to install XARs (replaces the old Packager on the back end side). Thomas to tell us if it's possible in the timeframe. >> -- Recent Activity with apps sending events (XE 2.6 will already have a good part of it) >> -- UI finishing touches >> -- Some additional Security and Performance improvements if possible >> -- etc (add what you'd like to see absolutely here - it should be work already started as much as possible and no new stuff) >> - Release XE 3.0 one month after the XE 2.7 release, ie around 18th of January - ie end of January 2011) >> >> Very important: XE 3.0 should be a maturation/conclusion release, i.e. concluding all the work started in the 2.x series (same as what we did for XE 2.0). It shouldn't be seen as revolutionary stuff that we should add from now on since it'll take a year more before those can be fully stabilized and we would loose the window of opportunity of doing a major release now. >> >> Note: We shouldn't try to cram too much things in since that'll extend the lead time to release XE 3.0 and we'll loose the stabilization effect. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

5 5

Re: [xwiki-users] [myxwiki] new wiki request
by Thomas Mortagne 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

You can access your new wiki on http://vg-concept.myxwiki.org Enjoy :) On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 21:00, Vladimir Goloubtzoff <vladimir.goloubtzoff(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > My register on myxwiki.org. is Vladimir > Could you please activate my account > Thanks > > 2010/11/3 Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> >> >> Hi, >> >> You are supposed to register yourself on myxwiki.org. >> >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:35, Vladimir Goloubtzoff >> <vladimir.goloubtzoff(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > As stated in my previous mail my wiki account has not yet been >> > activated. >> > Could you please take any necessary steps to activate my account? >> > Thank you in advance >> > Yours truly, >> > >> > 2010/10/28 Vladimir Goloubtzoff >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> i would like to realize articles, manuals and activities >> >> about the Internet, and the web. >> >> username : vladimir >> >> server name : vg-concept.myxwiki.org >> >> Thank you. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > users(a)xwiki.org >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- Thomas Mortagne

1 0