Thank you so much, i'll talk to my boss and see what can we do, so nice to get responses
2014-05-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net>: > Hi Walid, > > On 13 May 2014 at 10:23:42, walid yaich (walid.ya...@gmail.com(mailto: > walid.ya...@gmail.com)) 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/DataModel > - http://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 vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net) > : > > > > > > > On 12 May 2014 at 23:59:35, walid yaich (walid.ya...@gmail.com(mailto: > walid.ya...@gmail.com)(mailto:walid.ya...@gmail.com)) 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 :) > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
