Hi Eugen,
On 12/22/2010 11:37 PM, Eugen Colesnicov wrote:
Hi Developers!
I am sorry for some inconvenience, but at the ending of XE 2.x cycle, I saw
some discussions about plans for finilazing 2.x and for the 3.x future
development. All features are very interesting, very progressive and will
move XWiki forward.
But unfortunatly for a long time existing some very disappointing small bugs
and disappointing missed conveniences. I read carefully most of yours
discussions, but I don't see, that this problems stay in focus now. For this
reason, I want to ask about these issues.
This is important for me, because without resolving the following issues
maybe I will be forced to migrate to another colaboration adn
app.development platform.
If is it possible, can somebody give some plans about my issues (will be
resolved near future, not in plans, etc...)?
MULTILANGUAGE:
1) What about supporting any symbols (russian, chinese, space simbol and
others) in a attachment filenames?
2) When will be resolving problems with russian
symbols when I try to import
document from some file (use openoffice service) or use viewoffice
macro/feature? (but when I copy document content from the clipboard - all is
ok)
jira? I can look into this if you attach a test office document with
Russian symbols.
3) What about idea of separating interface language
selection and document
content language selection? I read this idea after was separated document
header and main application header.
4) Need possibilities to create own clases with supporting multilanguage
content (Also, old question). I can now create own applications only with
multilanguage interface (livetable headers, forms captions and etc.).
Each of these issues is not critical, but together its create point of view,
that XWiki ONLY DECLARE multilanguage, not real comprehensive
multilanguage...
Same situation with another group of questions.
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM:
5) Have you plans (and when) to fully implement XWQL? (possibility to use
XWQL in a own class query (database list property, resolve issues with dates
in XWQL, etc.).
6) What about full implementation of Groovy / Velocity? Witch language will
be main? Because in some situations I haven't possibility to use velocity
(for example in a sheduler script) in others - cannot normal use groovy ...
OTHERS:
7) office attachment preview - why "eye"
exists only on doc, xls, pdf files?
What about docx, xlsx, odf, ... (all formats OpenOffice and Office2007)?
OpenOffice has suporting all these formats.
jira? I can fix this easily.
Thanks,
Marius
8) Main menu (green) "ADD" "Page"
- Page creates with parent of current
space (if you didn't indicate space). Why? Normally (for example in a
"Create Page" Panel), if you didn't show special space page will be
created
in a current space with parent of a current page. (As a result I cannot use
this feature at all).
9) some restrictions of a WebDAV implementation (issues with authentication,
browsers issues, ...)
As you can see, many of a old and new features (multilanguage, offce
preview, webdav, create pages besed on template provides, query datas,
create own classes, and etc.), are magnificent in a general, but not
implemented totally in details. As a result - most of these great features
users cannot use at all!
Maybe will be great to stop all future development and concentrate (1-2
month) on issuses like described here in a XWiki 2.x cycle? Many another
large-scale software teams made like this in a some periods. They freeze
development and focused on a past issues, on a clarification and deepening
of a curennt features results and details. What you think about this?
PS. All these issuses appeared before in a xwiki forums or in a jira ... If
need to define more exactly some of my questions - I, with great pleasure,
will give more explanations on each of them.
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Best regards
Eugen Colesnicov