April 2017 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

[xwiki-devs] [Proposal][UX] Bundle Menu app in XWiki
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hi devs, Another idea for this roadmap is if we want to bundle the Menu App inside XWiki. I've tried to list the current issues at: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaDefaultMenu with a proposal for a default menu instance. WDYT? Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [Proposal][UX] Bundle Help app in XWiki
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hi devs, In the 9.2 roadmap we developed a Help Center in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/HELPCENTER-1 that showcases the major XWiki concepts (templates, macros, apps, etc.) to newcomers. Currently the idea is to bundle the Help in XWiki, in order to be accessible from the start, without the need of a manual install. I've describe the major issues with the bundling here: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaDefaultHelp WDYT? - Should we bundle it even if we have "Issue 1: Uninstallable"? Should we fix it first? - What about the other issues? Do you see any other problems? Thanks, Caty

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.3 released
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.3. This release brings a couple of small, but very useful improvements like: * the ability to filter the sections in Administration, * reset changes done to extension pages and * alternative configuration locations. Developers also get: * some helpful API in writing clean queries when escaping and filtering, * a new API to find documents belonging to extensions and * more control through a new extension point for the content menu 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/9.3 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] [xwik-devs] Local maven repository in Extension Manager
by Krzysiek Płachno 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hi, I want to connect local maven repository Extension Manager (and so Extension Repository) according to http://platform.xwiki.org/ xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingExtensions/#HUsingtheExtensionManager In 'xwiki.properties' I put following line: *extension.repositories=maven-local:maven:file:///C:/Users/Krzysztof/.m2/repository/* It was discovered by XWiki since in Repository Application it's visible: http://i.imgur.com/ep9yazr.png When I try to import extension from local repository (that is present there) I get exception: http://i.imgur.com/PucSgOL.png Full stack trace: https://pastebin.com/iUnJ29wm What may be the problem? Url to local repository ( *file:///C:/Users/Krzysztof/.m2/repository/)* is ok since when I paste it in browser I can access this directory flawlessly. I'm working on Windows. (url with backslashes, escaped or not, is not recognized by xwiki) Thanks in advance! Krzysztof

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 8.4.5 released
by Vincent Massol 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 8.4.5 (latest LTS). This is a bugfix release. 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/8.4.5 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] PR
by Sarthak Gupta 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hi, I have created a pull request for this issue: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/BLOG-32 on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-blog/ P.S : Is this the correct way of notifying about the pull request that I will create in future. :P Thanks

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[xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] Test Day #4
by Thomas Mortagne 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hi devs, The idea today is to do a Test Day with priority to fixing long standing flickering (integration mostly) tests. You can find known flickering tests on http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=14240. The goal is to really fix them, not just add some random wait here and there ;) If you are not confident with the area around those specific flickering tests here are some other ideas for this kind of Day: * obviously add more tests and increase the code coverage * move tests from enterprise to platform. Needed for the platform flavor and removal of XE * update jacoco covering setup (we often forget to increase it when adding more tests) * move more tests from JMock to Mockito * work on new test setups and tools: ** improve docker containers for packaging XWiki (possibly several for multiple DBs and Servlet containers). ** work on spreading Jenkins platform job into one job per maven module so that build can be spread on various agents (groovy scripting) ** Research/Use Jenkins 2 Pipeline plugin with the new DSL and commit the jenkinsfile in SCM ** Test platform to run contrib extension tests on various versions of XWiki automatically * Speedup existing tests (research xwiki startup time, remove unnecessary modules, etc) When what you fix can be linked to an issue, tag it with "testday" (same idea as "bugfixingday" when doing BFD). If not then answer to this mail to explain what you did. Good Test Day !

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[xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 9.3 Release Candidate 1 released
by Eduard Moraru 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.3 Release Candidate 1. This release brings a couple of small, but very useful improvements like the ability to filter the sections in Administration, reset changes done to extension pages and alternative configuration locations. Developers get some helpful API in writing clean queries when escaping and filtering, a new API to find documents belonging to extensions and more control through a new extension point for the content menu. 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/9.3RC1 Thanks for your support -The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-devs] Not able to make changes on localhost.
by Sarthak Gupta 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, Two days before I downloaded the application-blog repository from github on my pc. In order to check whether the changes I make in the repository(on my pc) are visible while running the localhost on browser, I made some changes in the ui of the application blog. (I tried to change the color of the 'date' text on top of blog page, I tried to increased the font size of title, I tried to shift the position of blog-button-toolbox ). But I think these changes are not visible to me on localhost after building the whole repository again. The process that I follow is: - Going to the application-blog directory. - going to application-blog-ui - making changes in BlogStyle.xml and saving them. - going back to application-blog directory. - mvn clean install.(100% success) - refreshing the localhost on my web browser. No changes seen! :/ Could there be any reason for this? Or am I doing it in a wrong way? Thank You Sarthak Gupta

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[xwiki-devs] [Usability] Feedback from session with new user
by Vincent Massol 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi devs, Over the weekend I had some friends at my house and I asked one of them to try a few simple tasks in XWiki. 1) I asked him to modify the home page to put his own content. He couldn’t find how to edit the home page... * I ran the Tour wizard and he read everything and finished it and still could’t find how to edit * He even read the content of the home page and noticed the line that says to use the pencil icon above to edit the page. He tried to click the pencil icon but couldn’t find or realize that there was a button to click above. * In the end I had to explain to him that page action bar. Idea/suggestion: At the end of the tour or outside the tour, when the first user views the home page, have a flashing arrow with a text “click here to edit this page” to direct the user to edit the page. Note that he mentioned having some text before the icons to say that this was a Menu… I found it a bit strange. When he saw the XWiki admin UI, he said that the vertical menu was much simpler to understand and that it would be nicer to use that for the page actions. I explained that it would take too much space and he understood that. 2) I asked him to create a new page. It took him some time to understand he had to enter a title but he did it. He clicked the “empty page” template, thinking that it would create the page. He even double-clicked it. After some hints from my side, he was able to locate the “create” button. Idea/suggestion: the create button is not easy to locate, it’s quite more down from the rest. Note that we’re also missing a cancel button if want to go back and not create a page. 3) I asked him to delete the page after he edited it and even created a new page but he didn’t realize the action would in the same action bar. The reason is that the icon for the actions is a “settings”/“cog” icon and he thought that there would be admin stuff under it. Idea/Suggestion: Change the icon to something else. 4) I asked him to create pages under other pages and he was able to do that fine. 5) He wanted the wiki in French and we noticed quite a few places that were missing translations: - the new step in the AWM wizard - the create page validation message - color theme admin UI (there were a few others but I forgot them) Note: When adding an image in CKEditor and when in French, the tab for uploading is translated as “Téléverser” which is quite awkward in French IMO… ;) 6) He was able to use the navigation panel to navigate Food for thoughts and actions… Thanks -Vincent

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