June 2015 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Do not use dom4j anymore and instead use JDOM2
by vincent＠massol.net 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hi devs, I’d like to propose that we agree about: * using JDOM2 when needing to parse/output XML files * moving away existing code gradually from DOM4J to JDOM2 Rationale: * It would be nice to pick one fwk and have more consistency * DOM4J seems not maintained anymore: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/files/ * JDOM2 seems maintained: http://jdom.org/news/ WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XWiki 7.2
by vincent＠massol.net 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Hi Devs, Here are some proposals below that I have discussed with committers from XWiki SAS already. For all other committers (thinking about Denis, Sergiu, Clemens, or others), feel free to add other stuff you’d like to do in 7.2. Content ======= Large topics: - Nested Spaces (yeah!) - See http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/NestedSpaces - Thomas/Marius/Guillaume/Edy/Caty/Gabriela/Vincent. See also the mail I sent a few days ago on this: http://markmail.org/message/sl3n3gvcxbsp2l6k - Add a new right to allow users to write scripts in wiki pages - Eduard Proposed Dates ============== - 7.2M1: 6 July - 7.2M2: 3 August - 7.2M3: 24 August - 7.2RC1: 7 September - 7.2Final: 14 September Note: There are lots of people going on holidays during the summer which is why I’m proposing a longer time frame than usual for 7.2. In addition Nested Spaces is a complex topic to implement so we’ll need this time :) Let me know if there are any concerns. Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Implement Nested Spaces in XWiki 7.2
by vincent＠massol.net 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi devs, The time has finally come! We’ve been discussing for a long time about implementing Nested Spaces in XWiki but we’ve never had the time to do it. It was raised for example in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-354 in 2006! :) This has been discussed internally at XWiki SAS and XWiki SAS has agreed to put all its devs on it for 7.2. To be fully transparent, a client of XWiki SAS is helping sponsor this feature if we can have a first version in 7.2 and a full implementation by the end of the year. We’ve (We = the XWiki core committers who work for XWiki SAS) started an early design of what needs to be done at http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/NestedSpaces With this email I’d like to ensure that all XWiki Dev Team committers agree to include the Nested Spaces feature in 7.2. The idea will be to mostly implement it in this release and then to fine-tune/polish/fix issues in 7.3 and 7.4 so that by the end of the year it’s fully implemented. Of course there’ll be plenty of discussions/decisions to make and they’ll all be discussed on this list, as usual. Note that I plan to send the usual roadmap proposal for 7.2 at the end of this week but I wanted to make sure we’d agree about developing this feature first! (I hope we do agree :)). WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [idea] okHttp's HttpUrl class
by vincent＠massol.net 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi devs, Could be interesting to use this okHttp when we need to manipulate URL/URI. Obviously we shouldn't drop URL/URI in APIs since that’s the standard… It allows to more easily parse query strings too. Anyway this is just some idea and more a FYI. See https://corner.squareup.com/2015/05/okhttp-2-4.html Thanks -Vincenr

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Proposal] Totem Application
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Hi, I've created a proposal for improving the UI for Totem Application [1] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/TotemApplication Although the proposal is done using Macaw Skin [2], the principles can be applied also on the current iteration of the application which is using Flamingo Skin: - reviewing the translations and hint messages; - improving the creation inline-form and modal forms; - adding link for Totem.Items; - improved display of a totem's sections (borders, drag&drop); - improved display of config and order forms; - standardized modals (header, body, footer) for section edit/items/delete actions; Thanks, Caty [1] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/TotemApplication [2] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/MacawSkin

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.1 Release Candidate 1 released
by Thomas Mortagne 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.1 Release Candidate 1. This is mostly an improvements release on new performance report design, Solr search UI and Watchlist notifications. It also introduce the experimental support for flavors in the Distribution Wizard. You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download Make sure to review the release notes: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki71RC1 The following people have contributed code to this release: Anca Luca Denis Gervalle Guillaume Delhumeau Eduard Moraru Guillaume Delhumeau Manuel Smeria Marius Dumitru Florea Thomas Mortagne Vincent Massol Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Delay 7.1 final release to the 15th
by vincent＠massol.net 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi devs, We’ve been a bit late on the 7.1 roadmap implementation, and as a consequence we’ve committed only recently some important features in RC1 and we need more time to verify they work properly. Thus the proposal is to: * Move the 7.1 final from 8th to 15th (one additional week) * Let users and testers test the 7.1RC1 properly during the week of the 8th * All devs not working on known blockers for the 7.1 final release should start working on Nested Spaces starting on the 8th (provided it’s accepted - I’ll send a proposal roadmap tomorrow afternoon for 7.2). The reason is that we'd need to have a working version of Nested Spaces by the end of 7.2 and that’d be a tough challenge so we'd need to get started ASAP if we want to have it ;) WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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