On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:55, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic@xwiki.com> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

I'm trying to get up to speed with the Extension Manager.

Did you manage to get this done or is it still in the works ? If it's there, how can we test the feature and current status ?

Also I'd like to propose that we put a few things in place for the Extension Manager feature:

1/ An action plan on this page:

http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManager

We do have a lot of Use Cases, but we don't know the priority of each and which one are worked one/already done. The "Gadgets Action Plan" is a good example (although it's not up to date):

http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/Gadget+Scenarios+Prioritized

One we have an action plan, I'd like to review it and make sure we haven't forgotton:

- which work is needed to wire the feature for "end-users" - platform work (have a respository available) - sample extensions (have some sample extensions in the repository)

See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Extension+Module

2/ Build a test plan so that Sorin can test the new feature and verify it corresponds to the objectives

What do you think ?

Currently there is not much to test in the UI since it's more a demo UI will see that latter when we will have something more final I need to work on with Jerome. The framework itself is covered with unit tests.

Ludovic

Le 21/02/11 09:41, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :

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Hi devs,

I did not had much time to work on Extension Manager lately so you did not seen much new things.

I'm concentrating again on it and here is what you can expect for 3.0M3: * multiwiki support: it means that you can install an extension on specific wiki(s) (even jar extensions) * xar handler: the possibility to install/upgrade/uninstall a xar. It will be only a first version here since it's a very big work.   ** will contains:     *** import a xar into the wiki     *** the xar can have infinite number of pages and attachments, it's just limited by the size of each attachment right now until the storage API support fully streamed attachments     *** very limited upgrade: import add a new version to make sure to not loose anything, there is no real merging handling     *** still experimental (not stable) API     *** still demo-like UI

I'm pretty much done with multiwiki support and import and currently writing tests for it. Then I will add new feature in the UI.

The next step will be to concentrate on xar merging for framework side and start sealing a bit more the API. Some work on the UI will probably be done at the same time too.

Thanks,

-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost

-- Thomas Mortagne