Hi Walid,

On 13 May 2014 at 10:23:42, walid yaich 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> I'm sorry, i'm so serious, we're more than 300 persons in the company using 
> XIWKI, si i'm pretty serious, if it's possible to write a tool to migrate in 
> 1 or 2 weeks, i'll probably do it.

BTW did you check the comments at 
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XWiki+Publication+Workflow+Application
 ?

Note that this extension is NOT developed by the XWiki dev team, it’s done by 
some individual and is in no way supported by the XWiki dev team.

Also note that you don’t need this extension at all to implement a simple 
workflow in XWiki. It can be done easily with the notion of XClass/XObjects 
natively but you’d need to spend 1-2 days to understand these concepts. 
Actually these concepts are the main reason people use XWiki and they allow you 
to go so much further than any other wiki can go.

If you’re serious and want to build something for the long run, I highly 
recommend that you spend 2-3 days to get familiar with XWiki before making an 
impacting change for your company.

Some tutorials on XClass/XObjects:
- http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModelhttp://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial

Generally speaking you’ll find technical resources here:
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WebHome

> Maybe you're right, i didn't wait much, but i spend much time trying to make 
> it work and i didn't even understand the concept of this extension, so maybe 
> it's not well documented, in 1 days i get MediaWIKI with the extension work 
> properly, but i spend 3 days on XWIKI without any result, so maybe one 
> another reason is documentation :)


Yes that’s a good point. We always need to improve documentation. In this case 
however, it’s beyond our control since this is an extension contributed by some 
individual and is in no way managed by the XWiki dev team.

What could help would be to have a Workflow extension developed/supported by 
the XWiki dev team. If enough people request this, this could be considered 
indeed.

BTW most people switch from Mediawiki to XWiki because they’re quickly limited 
by Mediawiki on the “enterprise” aspects: fine-grained permissions, flat page 
hierarchy, LDAP integration, Office integration, etc.

Thanks
-Vincent

> 2014-05-13 9:18 GMT+01:00 [email protected](mailto:[email protected]) :
> >  
> > On 12 May 2014 at 23:59:35, walid yaich 
> > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])(mailto:[email protected]))
> >  wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > The reason is that we need a simple workflow in the wiki, the extension 
> > > XWiki
> > > Publication Workflow Application not working.  
> >  
> > hmm that doesn’t seem a good reason to switch IMO… :)  
> >  
> > You’re going to spend 10 times more time writing a migrator than you would 
> > to make the Workflow Application work. AFAICS you’ve just posted an email 
> > about the Workflow issue only a few minutes/hours ago and you’re not even 
> > waiting for the response before deciding to migrate, that doesn’t look 
> > serious to me…  
> >  
> > Thanks  
> > -Vincent
> >  
> > > Well, actually i need to move from XWIKI to MediaWIKI, but the most
> > > difficult problem is the migration
> > >
> > > Would you please give me any clue about the easiest way to migrate the
> > > whole content from XWIKI to MediaWIKI
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance :)
>  
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