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.

-- Best regards Eugen Colesnicov