+1 for such a page. We also need to align this with our installation documentation.
Thanks, Caty On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:33 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 21 Aug 2018, at 16:25, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Mortagne > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Hi devs, > >>> > >>> Right now we have: > >>> * Supported browsers: > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy > >>> * Supported DBs: > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy > >>> > >>> But we don’t have a list of supported Servlet Containers. > >>> > >>> I think the reason is that we considered that XWiki would work on all > of them. While this is true, in practice it means testing and finding the > right configuration for XWiki to work on the various contrainers. Thus it > requires time and testing, thus support. > >>> > >>> For example right now lots of users have trouble making XWiki work on > Wildfly or Glassfish. In the past I had worked on those and documented how > to make XWiki work on them but new version have come up and XWiki has > changed too and seems work is needed to document. I also added some > jboss-reated config files in our distribution to make it easy and work OOB > for JBoss. We might need to do that for other containers or udpate those > files. > >>> > >>> So IMO we should list a subset of Servlet Containers that we official > support (ie. that we actively tests and update documentation, fix code when > needed). Same as for DBs and browsers, the community is welcome to provide > support for more ofc. > >>> > >>> For me the supported list should be for now: > >>> * Jetty > >>> * Tomcat > >> > >> At least this list would make official what is the current situation > >> which is not bad. > > > > Well actually it's not 100% true for Jetty either. We do test a lot an > > very customized version of Jetty (compared to the setup you get by > > default when you download Jetty) plus I had issues last time I tried > > to upgrade the version of Jetty (see > > https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15155). > > Yes, but we could support Jetty OOB too. Would be good IMO. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > >> > >>> > >>> I’m hesitating with Wildfly and Glassfish since they’re quite popular > too. It would be nice to have them but I don’t think we have the manpower > ATM so I would leave them to the community for now, as a best effort. > >>> > >>> WDYT? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> -Vincent > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thomas Mortagne > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > >
