On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Andreas Schaefer wrote:
>> Hi Sergiu
>>
>>>> Actually there is already one:  XABLOG-22
>>
>> You are assigned to this problem. If you did not start working on  
>> this
>> I would like to get my hands dirty here.
>
> Feel free to play with it.
>
>>>>>> Yes. You need to go to
>>>>>> http://madplanet.com/bin/edit/Blog/RssCode?editor=wiki and
>>>>>> replace the
>>>>>> content at line 113:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <title>$title</title> -> replace $title with the content of your
>>>>>> choice
>>>>>>
>>>>>> then save the page. It's no a perfect solution but it will work  
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> case.
>>>>> No this is not the right way. You go to the blog home page and  
>>>>> edit
>>>>> objects. Then change the title.
>>>> I tried Guillaume's link above but got an 404.
>>
>> Actually I figured out that the 'xwiki' context was missing.
>>
>>>> Thanks. I think slowing I am getting the hang of it on how to use
>>>> XWiki.
>>> The first steps are always the hardest. Thanks for not giving up
>>> easily.
>>
>> Well, I started my first steps in open-source back when Richard  
>> Oeberg
>> was still working on JBoss. So I am used not to give up too early, on
>> the other hand I have some much to do including 4 kids that sometimes
>> I just cannot afford to spend days after days on something just for  
>> fun.
>>
>> On the other hand I really think that XWiki needs a 1/2 hour primer
>> that explains how to install it, how to do basic configuration and  
>> how
>> to customize it. I slowly see the hidden features of XWiki but I can
>> imagine that for many that hurdle is too high and so they give up
>> early.
>
> See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-392 , this is planned. It's
> more a user getting started guide, we'd probably need to add some more
> administration information to it.

It's actually already written here:
http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GettingStarted/

Feedback and improvement ideas are most welcome.

Thanks
-Vincent

>> I was playing around with Liferay for a while and it is easy to
>> get started and to bring a web site to life. But then many of their
>> features are so limited like Blog, Wiki, Content Management that I
>> stopped using it. That said I would love if XWiki could distribute a
>> Version bundled with Jetty and a basic configuration already
>> installed. Even yesterday when I started to push XWiki to the
>> production server I couldn't remember why I couldn't login until I
>> click on the Administrator button (top right) where I finally was
>> redirected to the Import page.
>> Such a bundle together with a short introduction to the XWiki
>> environment would help many users to go over the initial hump where
>> the start to appreciate XWiki a lot.
>
> We have such a bundle, the default distribution package consists of
> XWiki + Jetty + HSQLDB. It is very easy to use (we even have a .jar
> installer for all the platforms, and a .exe for Windows), and many  
> users
> appreciated this package for its ease of use compared to the
> installation instructions for other wikis. The problem with it is that
> it is not meant for production use, so sooner or later a sysadmin will
> have to get his hands dirty with the war and the
> installation/administration documentation.
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