June 2013 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] What default language for our documents in releases XAR ?
by Thomas Mortagne 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hi devs, Right now the XAR plugin format goal systematically empty the <defaultLanguage> property. This is wrong IMO since it means we have no idea what is the default document language, it was not too visible before but it's really not very nice for things like the localization module and especially SOLR which store deferently the content depending on the language (stop words, etc). I see several possibilities: 1) We don't touch the XAR maven plugin and we state that when default language is not set, it's en (in the importer for example or in XWikiDocument#getDefaultLanguage) 2) We stop filtering default language in the XAR plugin and we set it to en for all document in which it make sense 3) We force default language to "en" in the XAR plugin WDYT ? I don't like too much 1) since some technical document could really be seen has having no default language, some document without any literal content. But it's more a -0 than a -1, I understand other would want this for simplicity. About 3) as I said having a default language empty is a valid use case IMO so -0 for this one to. Still a bit better than 1) since the use case is still possible. +1 for 2) -- Thomas Mortagne

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[xwiki-devs] [QA] Feedback for 5.1 M2
by Sorin Burjan 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi devs, XWiki 5.1 Milestone 2 is going to be released on Monday. We'll go through the list of bugs fixed for 5.1 M2 and try to validate as many as we can. Besides those, do you want us to test some specific issues or features ? Regards, Sorin B.

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[xwiki-devs] [Announcement] XWiki Mobile Application on the Apple App Store
by Ludovic Dubost 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi, I'm happy to announce that the XWiki Mobile Application has made it to the Apple App Store. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xwiki-mobile/id655769489?l=fr&ls=1&mt=8 It requires XWiki Platform 4.x to function (also works with XWiki SAS' XWiki Cloud instances). More information as well as an Android package is available at: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XWikiMobile For developers more detailed information about the project are available here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MobileClient and the code is published on GitHub: https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-mobile-morpho Any bugs can be reported in the XWiki Morpho bug tracker: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XMMORPHO We need a bit more work to get the Android version ready for Google Play. We have Buddhi, our Google Summer of Code student who will work on this. If there are testers to try it on different Android OS versions and devices you are welcome to help us. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Founder and CEO Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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[xwiki-devs] New version of the Mobile App Code
by Ludovic Dubost 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi, I've made some progress on the mobile application code. Here is a demo of the application embedded in a page: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MobileClientDemoV2-201304?view=i… More info about the Mobile app development http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MobileClient What's new in this version is a refactoring of the code so that it's easier to write a screen in one block of code. This will help modularization and even will allow screens to be provided by the wiki on which you connect. This will be great to do "custom" experiences in the Mobile application, which is a lot what XWiki is about. Also some additional screens have been implemented: - configuration (which allows to add a wiki and store the config locally) - applications view - search view - improvements to the page view (links are working now, there is an open in safari button) We are getting closer to something releasable. What I believe is still necessary is: - the page list view needs to be improved - the buttons needs to be displayed properly - the page view should get some way to zoom/scroll correctly - the should be a way to paginate or ask for more results Any other comments of what blockers could be to make a v1 release are welcome. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Founder and CEO Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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[xwiki-devs] [Reminder] BFD#24
by Vincent Massol 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi everyone, Today is BFD24. Our goal is still to have more bugs closed than created for the past 1200 days! http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 As of now we're 35 bugs behind (from 45 last week). Let's make some progress today, 10+ would be great. Here's the BFD#24 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11598 Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Presentation
by Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

Hi XWiki developers! I am a developer who work for XWiki SAS for a year and a half. Until now, my work was customizing some xwiki installs for different clients, by writing a lot of Velocity and Groovy scripts. I have enjoyed to work with this platform, powerfull and very flexible. In the next few months, I will contribute, more and more, to the XWiki project itself. I have already a github account and I have created some pull requests, from time to time. I hope my contributions will be useful for the project. Have a great day! Louis-Marie

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[xwiki-devs] Alternative Activity Stream experiment
by Ludovic Dubost 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi, While working on the mobile application I needed a notification system that would send enough but not to many notifications of changes in a wiki. Also I needed the message to be short. In the end I looked at changes every five minutes and I constructed a short message depending on the amount of changes (if only one page is added then send the page title, if multiple pages are changes in one wiki send the wiki names and the number of changes, etc..) After using this for a while on my mobile I found the result quite interesting and I thought this could also apply to the activity stream. Here comes an activity stream experiment based on this method: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ActivityStreamDemo (on a multi wiki) http://incubator.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ActivityStreamDemo (on a single wiki) Additionally this method allows to implement it quite efficiently, as you can see at the bottom of the page. It was possible to make this display with only 2 queries (plus loading of documents for the security checks, which could in the end be the most costly). One queries finds the intervals of 5 (or more) minutes in which there are data. From there we know how much data we need from the activity stream and can retrieve all that data in one query. Finally group by group we construct the message display. The fact that you can run this in 2 queries is very important as it means you can have steady performance both for very active wikis but also for wikis that have much less or much older activity. One of the big problems of activity stream displays is that you never initially know how much data you need to display results. By clicking on the group you can load in ajax the details of the changes. You can also change the group delay and the number of groups displayed. Here 60 minutes showing 40 groups http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ActivityStreamDemo?max=40&delay=60 What is interesting with this system is that the use could decide the delay so that he gets a general view of the activity over a long period of time. You could display a couple weeks with a 24 delay and if you click on the day you show by groups of 30 minutes. This opens a lot of possibilities. You could also get into the details of the last hour, then be less detailed for the less recent changes. Food for thoughts for the redesign of the activity stream. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Founder and CEO Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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[xwiki-devs] Redirect to a space
by Bruno Amaro Almeida 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hi How can i redirect the users after login to a space ? I`m looking at login.vm but i have no clue to do this Thanks

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[xwiki-devs] State of our selenium tests on multiple browsers (on Mac)
by Vincent Massol 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hi devs, Yesterday, I tried to fix some functional UI tests that were failing on my machine (Mac) since 9 ui tests were failing. FireFox Driver =========== After some time and help from Marius we realized that Native Events are currently not supported on Mac for the Firefox driver (see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/webdriver/LfMDwd2phDg and https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/selenium-users/DYHb61cJH… ) Note that the tests work if the browser window has the focus... Chrome Driver =========== Next I tried to use ChromeDriver by installing https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list version 0.9 (chromedriver2_mac32_0.9.zip). I got: Tests run: 359, Failures: 2, Errors: 188, Skipped: 1 … One big problem I got was: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: focusElement execution failed; Failed to send keys because cannot focus element (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Which corresponds to https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=59 (see my comments at the bottom) PhantomJS Driver (aka Ghostdriver) ============================= Next I tried phantomJS/ghostdriver (see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9198) I just tried to run EditWYSIWYGTest and 4 tests out of 8 failed. One issue is the one I raised at https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver/issues/226 That's not the only issue though… Conclusion ========= There's a lot of work to make our functional tests work with various selenium drivers and there's no solution that works well on Mac... Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] Query Generator and Macro
by Ludovic Dubost 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hi, I've published a query generator and a query macro. First a query macro can take an XWQL query and a list of columns and display an HTML table. Second a query UI allows to select a class a criterias for each field of that class and generate the associated XWQL query and the syntax to use for the query macro. http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Query+Generator Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Founder and CEO Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

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