October 2017 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.9 released
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.9. This release focused on fixing bugs on Notifications, Office Viewer and Solr Search. The server is now able to check for its new versions and user preferences are taken into account by the notifications toggles. 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/Data/XWiki/9.9/ Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] Forum Application v2.2.1 Released
by Alexandru Cotiuga 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

HI all, A new version of the Forum Application extension is available with the fix of a blocker issue. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/ForumApplication#Hv2.2… . You can install or upgrade with the Extension Manager. Thanks, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [application-glossary]
by Sarthak Gupta 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Hi, I am trying to build the application-glossary-api module but it is failing and is showing in the stack trace "Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.xwiki.tool.enforcer.ExternalExtensionCheck". I googled it and found that may be the class is missing from the classpath, so I added : <groupId>org.xwiki.commons</groupId> > <artifactId>xwiki-commons-tool-enforcer-dependencies</artifactId> > <version>${commons.version}</version> as a dependency in the api pom.xml, but that doesn't seem to work. Stack Trace: https://pastebin.com/3rJu1MJv Thanks Sarthak Gupta

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[xwiki-devs] [Call to Action] Looking for Google Code-In mentors
by Vincent Massol 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Hi everyone, Thomas and I would like to try the Google Code-In (GCI) programme this year (GCI is for high school students). We’ve been participating to lots of discussions about it at the GSOC summit 2017 and it seems like it could bring some interesting things for the XWiki project. Our goal: * Participate to GCI * Kill 2 birds with one stone and create an onboarding programme for anyone wanting to contribute to XWiki without any knowledge Here’s what we’ve done so far: * We’ve started registering XWiki as an org on https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/ * We’ve also started creating the GCI pages on xwiki.org at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleCodeIn/ * We’ve started creating GCI issues in XWiki (reusing existing JIRAs + creating new ones). The idea is to map our Paper Cuts ideas we had (http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/PaperCut) with GCI. ** In practice a GCI issue is a “Trivial” issue, labelled with “GCI”. Next immediate steps: * Finish the application process before the 24th of October. We’ll know on the 26th of October if we’re selected or not. * Find at least 10 mentors for the programme. We’re currently 2. A mentor doesn't need to be an expert in XWiki at all since the GCI tasks need to be super simple with very clear success criteria. So we need the maximum of mentors. We need to be prepared to handle 10-50 students at all time participating to XWiki GCI tasks! ** Example of people who could be mentors: committers, contributors, QA/testers, XWiki users, ex-GSOC students * Before the 28th of November have at least 200 tasks defined. IMPORTANT: The mentors are not assigned to any student and we work as a pool of mentors (it’s not like GSOC!). A mentor can handle validating tasks and answering questions from students at the intensity that they want (could be as low as doing that for a few tasks only). Please let us know quickly if you’re willing to be a mentor for GCI! Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#152
by Alexandru Cotiuga 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hello devs, Today is BFD#152: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status is: * -42 bugs over 120 days (4 months), i.e. we need to close 28 bugs to have created bugs # = closed bugs # * -72 bugs over 365 days (1 year). * -55 bugs over 500 days (between 1 and 2 years) * -198 bugs over 1600 days (4.3 years) * -689 bugs since the beginning of XWiki See https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Here's the BFD#152 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13922 Happy Bug Fixing Day, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Drop support for Internet Explorer 10/11 + Adding support for Edge
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Hi devs, This mail is about: A. Dropping support for IE10 B. Dropping support for IE11 C. Adding support for Microsoft Edge --- If you read our Browser Support Strategy ( http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy ) we are still supporting Internet Explorer 10. We started its support since Jun 17, 2015. In practice we don't perform full tests on IE10, focusing mostly on IE11. The last performed tests for IE10 where in Jan 2017, for XWiki 8.4.4 ( http://test.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/QA/XWiki%208.4.4#|t=qa&p=1&l=15&s=test… ). On another note, Microsoft Edge replaced Internet Explorer as the default web browser since the release of Windows 10 (launched Jul 2015). Internet Explorer 11 is maintained on Windows 10 for compatibility purposes, but is deprecated in favor of Edge and is no longer actively developed. Instead of supporting "Internet Explorer 10.x-Latest" + "We support IE browsers, starting with version 10." we actually should say (in case the vote is passing) "Internet Explorer 11 + Microsoft Edge". We might even considered dropping support for IE 11 and just keep Microsoft Edge, since that's the latest version of Windows supported browser. Although, IE11 currently still has a better usage than Microsoft Edge. I could not found any performed tests for Microsoft Edge on our test wiki. --- In terms of xwiki.org website usage for the past 12 months, we have: - 5.46% sessions for Internet Explorer -- IE11: 91.50% -- IE10: 2.80% - 1.43% sessions for Edge (multiple versions) In terms of worldwide market share for the past 12 months (according to http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/ ), for desktops, we have: - 8.21% IE - 4.3% Edge Usage example for August 2017: - 7.1% for IE11 - 2.26% for Edge 15 - 1.37% for Edge 14 - 0.2% for Edge 13 --- So my votes are: A. Dropping support for IE10 +1 B. Dropping support for IE11 -0, because of bigger usage compared to Microsoft Edge. Still, I don't think we have the man-power to support tests on both browsers types. C. Adding support for Microsoft Edge +1, because this is the latest supported browser for Windows Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] Thank you + What's next after GSOC
by Vincent Massol 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

@GSOC students: Thank you so much for having participated to this year’s GSOC! You did some great work and made the xwiki project even more appealing to outsiders! We’d love to keep seeing you in the xwiki community and to keep you engaged. Let us know what you’re interested to do in the future, we’re always eager to learn more from you. Also, I’ve started a section on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/#HWhat27snextafterGS… about what’s next for students once they’ve completed a GSOC project. Let us know if there are items of interest to you. Thanks again -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.9 Release Candidate 2 released
by Marius Dumitru Florea 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.9 Release Candidate 2. This is mostly a bug fixing release (25 bugs), focused on Notifications, Office Viewer and Solr Search. The server is now able to check for its new versions and user preferences are taken into account by the notifications toggles. 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/Data/XWiki/9.9RC2 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] Creation of transformation
by Sarthak Gupta 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hello, As the tests of my project application-glossary <https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-glossary> are not working, in spite of my attempts(I will handle then later), I am moving on to implementing the next feature of the application i.e creating transformation. As far as I understand, the transformation requires a cache component from which entries shall be taken for rendering purpose. This cache should get updated when a glossary xobject is added, deleted or modified. For this functionality to take place, it should make use of an Event Listener. Hope I am right till now? I have a question in my mind. The "cache" and the "event Listener" are to be implemented as two separate components. right? What I think is, that the EventListener component should be filled with appropriate methods just like this <https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…> and then in these methods, the cache should be updated. Is this implementation right? And after this, the rendering part will come.... Thanks Sarthak Gupta

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#151
by Alexandru Cotiuga 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hello devs, Today is BFD#151: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays Our current status is: * -48 bugs over 120 days (4 months), i.e. we need to close 28 bugs to have created bugs # = closed bugs # * -79 bugs over 365 days (1 year). * -62 bugs over 500 days (between 1 and 2 years) * -188 bugs over 1600 days (4.3 years) * -823 bugs since the beginning of XWiki See https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Here's the BFD#151 dashboard to follow the progress during the day: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13919 Happy Bug Fixing Day, Alex

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