On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi xwikiers, > > I just add clustering support which was the last big peace of > framework that was blocking a first fully functional version of > Extension Manager. > > I will now dedicate my time to write tests and fix bugs and small > improvements I find and try to fix some UI bugs too if Sergiu does not > have time. > > I also have some improvement work in XWiki Repository and finally make > extension.xwiki.org fully based on standard XWiki Repository and not > have custom version anymore. > > During the 3.5 and 4.0 timeframe it would be nice to get as much tests > and reports as possible on what is not working or still blocker in > term or usability so that we get a nice and strong first version we > can advertise in 4.0. > > There is obviously lots of possible improvements some of which you can > find on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManager > (and I need to add more things in there) but I would like to limit to > a fully working minimum for 4.0 and then do a priority survey on the > many new features and improvements ideas. > > Here are the grey areas I know about and on which I'm going to > concentrate on writing tests: > * automatic xar merging is a quick implementation not excessively > tested. Also the string properties content merging is not able to > merge modification done on the same line which is not nice when things > like the title is customized in the wiki and also changed in the new > version of the xar. Right now in doubt the merge always take the new > version when there is a conflict so that nothing is lost since it's > easy to get back the previous version from the history. Also I'm not > going to have time to work on a real manual conflict resolution UI for > this timeframe, not alone at least. > * clustering is a bit young ;) Also it expect all members to have the > exact same constraints, if for any reason an extension is installed to > a member and fail on another it could create quite a mess if that's an > important extension. > * it's not very hard to add versions and dependencies in XWiki > Repository but it require using object editor which is not very nice > for all profiles of users (now it's generally done by the developer of > the extension so not a basic user either). Will try to work on that if > I have some time left.
Forgot to indicate that I still need to upgrade xwiki.org to 3.4 to get the last XWiki Repository improvements. Major one being extension import (create a page for an extension actually stored in a maven repository and importing all metadatas). > > Thanks, > -- > Thomas Mortagne -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
