24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
6:10 a.m.
Hi all,
I personally fixed a few bugs in xoffice at the start of the year, which was
released in XOffice 1.1. That was a long time ago, and we have not been
using xoffice in the meantime (not building documentation yet). Now it is
time to use it, and I'm having a lot of trouble.
I would post a bug to JIRA if it were a single problem, but it appears that
xoffice is fundamentally broken as I can't go longer than 30 seconds without
hitting a road block.
Does anyone use it?
* For some pages with images, when I click Edit, the text appears with blank
boxes for the images.
* I am able to do the following: I edit a text-only page, and copy-paste in
an image, then click Publish. Stop and restart Word, and it is able to Edit
the page WITH THE IMAGE correctly. Seems strange that it works for this
page, but not the other.
* Some pages cannot be edited. I click Edit and it either doesn't seem to
hear the button click, OR it will pop up "Opening page..." progress dialog,
which never disappears.
These are serious roadblock bugs, am I the only one seeing this, or is this
so buggy that noone else is using it regularly?
This is version 1.1 (released early 2011), with Word 2010, on Vista, freshly
installed with not much else on the laptop.
thanks
Paul
24 Oct
24 Oct
8:46 a.m.
Hi Paul,
Indeed nobody is actively working on it at the moment and I was about to send a mail this
week to propose to retire it and move it to the contrib repository since nobody in the
xwiki committers are active on it and we want to keep a good quality on the software that
we make available.
The only alternative would be someone stepping up and willing to work on it and ensure it
works with latest XWiki Enterprise versions. See that we have nobody active on it, we
could throw a vote to grandfather that person as an XOffice committer so that he/she can
easily work on it.
Since you already fixed some bugs on it maybe you'd be interested to help out?
Thanks a lot
-Vincent
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Paul Harris wrote:
Hi all,
I personally fixed a few bugs in xoffice at the start of the year, which was
released in XOffice 1.1. That was a long time ago, and we have not been
using xoffice in the meantime (not building documentation yet). Now it is
time to use it, and I'm having a lot of trouble.
I would post a bug to JIRA if it were a single problem, but it appears that
xoffice is fundamentally broken as I can't go longer than 30 seconds without
hitting a road block.
Does anyone use it?
* For some pages with images, when I click Edit, the text appears with blank
boxes for the images.
* I am able to do the following: I edit a text-only page, and copy-paste in
an image, then click Publish. Stop and restart Word, and it is able to Edit
the page WITH THE IMAGE correctly. Seems strange that it works for this
page, but not the other.
* Some pages cannot be edited. I click Edit and it either doesn't seem to
hear the button click, OR it will pop up "Opening page..." progress dialog,
which never disappears.
These are serious roadblock bugs, am I the only one seeing this, or is this
so buggy that noone else is using it regularly?
This is version 1.1 (released early 2011), with Word 2010, on Vista, freshly
installed with not much else on the laptop.
thanks
Paul
2:35 p.m.
Hi,
If you didn't start your documentation yet and you don't have any legacy
documents, I'd recommend using a pure web solution like XWiki. If you use MS
Office for advanced content, you will have issues pushing that content to
the wiki anyway.
I created XOffice a few years ago, when MS Office was a lot more dominant
and web editors were still weak(including the one used by XWiki), but the
situation is quite different now.
Indeed there was no development on it for the past year.
If you have critical issues with XOffice, it may be one of the following:
- you are using a localized version of Office or Windows (there are older
known issues with those)
- there is a conflict with newer XWiki versions.
The MS Office and Windows behavior and security settings are different for
versions released on other languages. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but
that's the way it is.
I've been receiving quite a few requests for a new release. However I could
only do some bug fixing only for the En/En environment, since it's a pain to
test and fix other versions.
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotau
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi Paul,
Indeed nobody is actively working on it at the moment and I was about to
send a mail this week to propose to retire it and move it to the contrib
repository since nobody in the xwiki committers are active on it and we want
to keep a good quality on the software that we make available.
The only alternative would be someone stepping up and willing to work on it
and ensure it works with latest XWiki Enterprise versions. See that we have
nobody active on it, we could throw a vote to grandfather that person as an
XOffice committer so that he/she can easily work on it.
Since you already fixed some bugs on it maybe you'd be interested to help
out?
Thanks a lot
-Vincent
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Paul Harris wrote:
Hi all,
I personally fixed a few bugs in xoffice at the start of the year, which
was
released in XOffice 1.1. That was a long time
ago, and we have not been
using xoffice in the meantime (not building documentation yet). Now it
is
time to use it, and I'm having a lot of
trouble.
I would post a bug to JIRA if it were a single problem, but it appears
that
xoffice is fundamentally broken as I can't go
longer than 30 seconds
without
hitting a road block.
Does anyone use it?
* For some pages with images, when I click Edit, the text appears with
blank
boxes for the images.
* I am able to do the following: I edit a text-only page, and copy-paste
in
an image, then click Publish. Stop and restart
Word, and it is able to
Edit
the page WITH THE IMAGE correctly. Seems strange
that it works for this
page, but not the other.
* Some pages cannot be edited. I click Edit and it either doesn't seem
to
hear the button click, OR it will pop up
"Opening page..." progress
dialog,
which never disappears.
These are serious roadblock bugs, am I the only one seeing this, or is
this
so buggy that noone else is using it regularly?
This is version 1.1 (released early 2011), with Word 2010, on Vista,
freshly
installed with not much else on the laptop.
thanks
Paul
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4:34 p.m.
The killer feature is that normal users can create a document and copy-paste
screenshots into a wiki document.
That cannot be done with (almost) any web wiki editor I can find at present.
Every person we showed it to loved it, and was willing to try editing a
document on the wiki.
Everyone we talked to about editing a wiki document via the web interface
was simply not interested.
We work with people who have almost no free time and are not interested in
learning yet another program (ie web-wiki)... They know MS Word well, they
are already read to write content.
I don't understand why you aren't pushing this simple but powerful component
more. I don't see it mentioned on wikipedia, or wikimatrix.
I think if you made sure xoffice worked, and let people know it existed,
then more people would use xwiki. Its a killer feature and I don't
understand why its not on billboards on the sides of freeways.
Regards,
Paul
On 24 October 2011 20:35, Florin Ciubotaru <florin.ciubotaru(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi,
If you didn't start your documentation yet and you don't have any legacy
documents, I'd recommend using a pure web solution like XWiki. If you use
MS
Office for advanced content, you will have issues pushing that content to
the wiki anyway.
I created XOffice a few years ago, when MS Office was a lot more dominant
and web editors were still weak(including the one used by XWiki), but the
situation is quite different now.
Indeed there was no development on it for the past year.
If you have critical issues with XOffice, it may be one of the following:
- you are using a localized version of Office or Windows (there are older
known issues with those)
- there is a conflict with newer XWiki versions.
The MS Office and Windows behavior and security settings are different for
versions released on other languages. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but
that's the way it is.
I've been receiving quite a few requests for a new release. However I could
only do some bug fixing only for the En/En environment, since it's a pain
to
test and fix other versions.
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotau
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
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Hi Paul,
Indeed nobody is actively working on it at the moment and I was about to
send a mail this week to propose to retire it and move it to the contrib
repository since nobody in the xwiki committers are active on it and we
want
to keep a good quality on the software that we
make available.
The only alternative would be someone stepping up and willing to work on
it
and ensure it works with latest XWiki Enterprise
versions. See that we
have
nobody active on it, we could throw a vote to
grandfather that person as
an
XOffice committer so that he/she can easily work
on it.
Since you already fixed some bugs on it maybe you'd be interested to help
out?
Thanks a lot
-Vincent
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Paul Harris wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I personally fixed a few bugs in xoffice at the start of the year,
which
was
> released in XOffice 1.1. That was a long time ago, and we have not
been
using
xoffice in the meantime (not building documentation yet). Now it
is
time to use it, and I'm having a lot of
trouble.
I would post a bug to JIRA if it were a single problem, but it appears
that
xoffice is fundamentally broken as I can't go
longer than 30 seconds
without
hitting a road block.
Does anyone use it?
* For some pages with images, when I click Edit, the text appears with
blank
> boxes for the images.
>
> * I am able to do the following: I edit a text-only page, and in
this
an image, then click Publish. Stop and restart
Word, and it is able to
Edit
> the page WITH THE IMAGE correctly. Seems strange that it works for page, but
not the other.
* Some pages cannot be edited. I click Edit and it either doesn't seem
to
hear the button click, OR it will pop up
"Opening page..." progress
dialog,
which never disappears.
These are serious roadblock bugs, am I the only one seeing this, or is
this
so buggy that noone else is using it regularly?
This is version 1.1 (released early 2011), with Word 2010, on Vista,
freshly
installed with not much else on the laptop.
thanks
Paul
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