February 2017 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] Org registration deadline and admin needed
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hi, Reminder: According to the timeline https://developers.google.com/ open-source/gsoc/timeline February 9 16:00 UTC is the Mentoring organization application deadline. Because of the differences in stipends for students around the world that were introduced thi year, see https://developers.google. com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-stipends I will not be this year a mentor or an org administrator. I find the segregation offensive and contrary to the principles I was promoting as part of the GSOC program. I ask someone else to continue with the registration process, in case we want to attend. You can find all the documents needed at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/ OrganizationAdministratorGuide We also need proposals so mentors should revive proposals from previous years or propose new ideas for this year. Thanks, Ecaterina Moraru Eduard Moraru

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XE 9.0-9.2
by Vincent Massol 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Hi devs, Here’s a proposal of topics to cover for XE 9.0-9.2 (i.e. Jan-Mar 2017). This proposal is proposed by XWiki SAS and was discussed with XWiki committers who work for XWiki SAS. If you also want to propose some other items, please do so. Ofc if you have some problems or questions with the proposed roadmap let me know in reply. * Distribution Manager Command Line Upgrade (aka Unattended Upgrades) - Thomas * Polish CKEditor - Marius * Auto-ajust column size on PDF export, to get different column lengths - Guillaume * Extension manager improvements to allow cleaner upgrades (XWIKI-12705 and XWIKI-13747) - Thomas * More Ease of Use - Marius * Default product pages should not be easily deleted - Guillaume * Move from XE to KB Flavor (up to the distribution) - Thomas * In-Product Tours and Documentation - Marius * Notification System - Guillaume @Devs: if you’re assigned to some tasks above please make sure you create JIRAs for XWiki 9.0-9.2 ASAP and assign yourself. Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] CKEditor Integration v1.12 Released
by Marius Dumitru Florea 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Hi all, I released 2 new versions of the CKEditor Integration this week, 1.11 and now 1.12. Both bring lost of bug fixes. I recommend upgrading to version 1.12 ASAP. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/CKEditor+Integration#H… . Thanks, Marius

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[xwiki-devs] What is a bug?
by Vincent Massol 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi devs, The story: * Some reporter (Anca in this case) reported the issue https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13947 as a bug * Caty modified it as an improvement * I didn’t quite agree and also consider it to be a bug So I think it would be healthy that we agree about the difference of bug vs improvement. This is not meant as a flamewar but more as a discussion to see if we could reach an agreement. If not, then so be it, we won’t have a common agreement. Here’s my POV and what I consider a bug is: "A bug is something that was NOT wanted by the developer. It's not related to its severity and there can be minor bugs and important bugs” I realize that another definition could be “A bug is any behaviour that a user consider not normal” but I find this more hazy and subject to interpretation so I prefer my first definition. For Caty a bug is “[…]broken/not working behaviour.” but that definition is not precise enough IMO since for me the issue in XWIKI-13947 is a broken behavior (I consider that the right behavior is to have the same top and bottom margin for boxes) and thus would match Caty’s rule. I also consider that there can be all types of bugs: visual bugs, performance bugs, feature bugs, etc and thus I don’t consider that visual issues are always improvements and never bugs. So an improvement would be about doing something differently than in the way it was voluntarily implemented. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New threshold for BFD (#135)
by Alexandru Cotiuga 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi devs, Today is BFD#135: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays As the goals described in http://markmail.org/message/v3jb64dw3e6e4mut (0 difference between resolved and created bugs for 1600 and 365 periods) have been achieved and there are still bugs to be fixed, I propose a new goal of achieving the same result for a 500 days period. Starting BFD#15 we can monitor our current status for the 500 days period, which is 28 bugs behind: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352#Created-vs-R… And the dashboard to follow the progress during today's BFD is: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13801 Enjoy you BugFixing Day, Alex

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.0 released
by Eduard Moraru 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.0. This release marks the start of the 9.x cycle and features mostly developer and admin feature improvements. The most notable ones are the improved handling of big attachments, filesystem Recycle Bin and CK Editor improvements. 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/9.0 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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