June 2016 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] Saving page name with accented character?
by Julio Brum 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I am using the XWiki version 7.4.1 with UTF-8 in Xwiki, tomcat8 and Postgres, but every time than I save a page with accent in the name, XWiki change the name. For example, I try to save a page with the name "é" and XWiki save "%25C3%25A9" Please, why this happens? *My settings in windows:* *tomcat\conf\server.xml:* <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" URIEncoding="UTF-8" *xwiki.cfg:* xwiki.encoding=UTF-8 *PostgreSQL:* CREATE DATABASE wiki WITH OWNER = postgres ENCODING = 'UTF8' TABLESPACE = pg_default LC_COLLATE = 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252' LC_CTYPE = 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252' CONNECTION LIMIT = -1; Thanks, Julio

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[xwiki-devs] [Vote] Showcase contributors in the Release Notes
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Hi, Since May 2015 we added in the Release Plan Help a step that collects the list of code contributors of a release and lists them in the announcement mail. IMO this is a nice way to acknowledge and thank people that are contributing to XWiki. I want to propose that we add this contributors list in the Release Notes. Release Notes are accessible when someone wants to downloads XWiki and they are also referenced as documentation when we close issues, while the mailinglist are read just by the people that are subscribed. This visibility increase will be beneficial to thank participants and also maybe motivate other users to join the development. We could have this listing both in the Release Notes and the Announcement Mail, but I believe it's sufficient in the Release Notes (let me know if you disagree). This change would imply: - Change in the Release Plan to add this step - Change in the Release Plan Help to document the process - Change the Release Notes Template to add the Contributors section The Release Manager would compute the code contributors, but additional people could add themselves in case they contributed translations or performed tests (which usually happen after the release, so it's hard to put this responsibility on the shoulders of the RM). Let me know if you want the contributions to be exclusive to code contributions. Also having other types of contributions means that we drop the announcement mail listing since it could be incomplete. Let me know what you think. My +1 Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [Contrib][Ratings] Release a bugfix version of the ratings application from the contrib project
by Anca Luca 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hello all, while using the ratings application on an XWiki 6.2.4, we encountered some bugs related to the storage of ratings in a separate space and with the update of a user's rating. We fixed them in these 2 commits: https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-ratings/commit/07758a698d400ed… and https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-ratings/commit/cd2c190e22f709e… . Now, the contrib ratings application was indeed "retired" so we normally should not use the contrib repo anymore. However, the work in these 2 commits is about fixing bugs (which might even be affecting the most recent version of ratings - we need to check that, didn't check it yet), and I don't see exactly what other option we have in this case (note that we cannot switch to the "platform ratings" as we're on XWiki 6.2.4 and ratings are in platform since 6.4. So, this is what I propose: * release a 1.3.5 version from the contrib code - if I understand correctly how extensions.xwiki.org works, this release will not appear as "most recent" on the application page - if I understand correctly how maven works, this version will not be considered more recent than 8.1 even if released after, because of the version number. * this means that the version 1.3.5 will be available as an upgrade to the users that use the contrib extension (v 1.3.4 or lower), will be available for new install to all users for which the dependencies requirements are satisfied and will not impact the users which use the platform version of the ratings app. Please let me know if I'm wrong in my reasoning. The advantage of this release would be publishing the bugfix work that we've done and making it available to all users of the ratings extension on versions lower than 6.4. Also, for us the advantage would be not having to deal with a code fork and manage a release / snapshot of this forked code separately. Unless somebody -1s this in the very close feature, we will go ahead with the release. Thanks, Anca P.S. There is a larger discussion to have about how to provide bugfixes on older versions of platform applications without upgrading all the wiki, but this should be in another mail or on IRC (e.g. if we discover that indeed these issues affect ratings app, the platform version, and we make fixes for these bugs, how can we provide these fixes to an XWiki 6.4 user?)

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#109
by Alexandru Cotiuga 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Hi devs, Today is BFD#109: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status for the 1 year period is 107 bugs behind. See: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10000#Created-vs-R… Here's the BFD#109 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13620 Happy Bug Fixing Day! Thanks, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.4.4 released
by Vincent Massol 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.4.4. This is a bugfix release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 7.4.3 version. 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/ReleaseNotesXWiki744 The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically): Alexandru Cotiuga Clemens Robbenhaar Denis Gervalle Eduard Moraru Guillaume Delhumeau Marius Dumitru Florea Medjdoub Pascal Bastien Thomas Mortagne Vincent Massol Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] Release of Nested Pages Migrator Application 0.5.1
by Guillaume Delhumeau 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Hello A new version of the Nested Pages Migrator Application extension is available. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Nested+Pages+Migrator+… You can install or upgrade with the Extension Manager. The application is still a beta version that you should use carefully. But this version brings some important bug fixes. Enjoy! -- Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Location for third-party extensions' content in XWiki Enterprise
by Alexandru Cotiuga 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

According to the new decided strategy in http://markmail.org/search/?q=[xwiki-devs]+[VOTE]+New+Strategy+for+the+XWik…, third-party extensions can by bundled in XWiki Enterprise. In some cases, we would need some content from those extension to be available at build time. Where could we put it? Taking the Tour Application's example, which It is about to be added in the dependency management of xwiki-enterprise and inherited in xwiki-enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-ui/xwiki-enterprise-ui-commons, we could have the following options: 1) xwiki-enterprise-ui-commons as a space Tours 2) xwiki-enterprise-ui-wiki as a space Tours 3) xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki as a space Tours 4) in a new child module of xwiki-enterprise.ui (looks like "help" keyword would make sense: xwiki-enterprise-ui-help) which could be used for future cases 5) in a new child module of xwiki-enterprise-ui having a specific name for tours. Could we decide a new rule for this topic? Thanks, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [UX][Vote] Future of Main.Welcome
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Hi, This thread is about deciding on a future for the Main.Welcome page. This page was used as the first gadget's content and was intended to be modified by the users. In 8.2M2 we changed the content of Main.WebHome page to provide simple wiki text instead of the Dashboard include, deprecating somehow the purpose of the Welcome page. Problem: In the 'Navigation' panel the "Welcome to your wiki" is displayed as a child page of "Home". Users might ask what is the purpose of this page. We could either: 1. Keep it 1.A and mark it as hidden: in order to not be displayed in the Navigation tree 1.B and move it to Dashboard: instead of being in the Main space, since now it's used only there. 1.C and change the text: from a generic 'Welcome' message, to instructions on how to edit the Dashboard (we would need a separate proposal on the content + if we want to display other gadgets) 2. Remove it We could consider that its content is deprecated by the new Main.WebHome page, so no need for this page. So we could delete the page + remove it from Dashboard. Dashboard could highlight more advanced gadgets (needing the separate Dashboard proposal). Let me know what you think, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] Integration of ratings in xwiki-platform
by Victor Rachieru 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Hei devs, I intend to integrate the ratings application which is now on xwiki-contrib into the xwiki-platform. This in mainly due to 3 points: ----- 1/ give the ability to use ratings in a wiki 2/ using it to provide ratings for the Extension Repository Application (XWIKI-7780) 3/ display ratings within Extension Manager (XWIKI-11509) The first point can be accomplished by using the ratings app as is but the other two imply that the ratings app should be a module that is maintained by XWiki. It makes sense that if the Extension Repository App and Extension Manager which are maintained by XWiki depend on the Ratings App, that this itself is maintained by XWiki as well. The steps needed for this is as follows: ----- 1/ create a new module in the xwiki-platform core for the ratings - xwiki-platform-core -- xwiki-platform-ratings --- xwiki-platform-ratings-api --- xwiki-platform-ratings-ui 2/ change the artifact id from "application-ratings" to "xwiki-platform-ratings" 3/ change the package from "org.xwiki.contrib.ratings" to "org.xwiki.platform.ratings" Implications ----- 1/ clone of the existing code is now in xwiki-platform under a different artifact id (having duplicate code, this takes us to #2) 2/ the code from xwiki-contrib would probably have to be deemed as "retired" 3/ the applications with a dependency to the xwiki-contrib ratings would have to be upgraded to depend on the module from xwiki-platform 4/ the script service would remain unchanged (changing the artifact id and package name does not affect the service) 5/ if by any chance someone has code that uses the classes from the ratings app on contrib, by upgrading, that code will cease to function Please state you position on this matter. Links ----- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Ratings+API http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Ratings+Application https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-ratings Thank you, Victor

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[xwiki-devs] Customize the title of a blog
by Julio Brum 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hello, How can I customize the title of a blog? I need to replace the title; information author, date, etc., which are below the title for a picture. I would like to replace this layout: [image: Imagem inline 1] for this layout (with image): [image: Imagem inline 2] Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Julio

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