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Hi all,

 

as you probably noticed, jboss.org JIRA instance running at http://issues.jboss.org has been upgraded today to JIRA 5.1 and GreenHopper 6.0.

 

Beside  security patches which forced us to speed up this upgrade, there is bunch of interesting improvements in JIRA 5.1 as you can see in Release Notes. Probably most noticeable are:

  • Inline editing on issue view page
  • 'Autowatch' issues you create or comment on
  • Project administration and performance improvements

 

GreenHopper has been updated from 5.10 to 6.0 https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/GreenHopper+6.0+Release+Notes 

Main enhancements and changes:

  • New Agile menu structure
  • Future sprint planning

 

Enjoy

As of Wednesday 13th June 2012 it's possible to browse the files at http://downloads.jboss.org/<project> using a new 'Directory Listing' paragraph in Magnolia. This saves you the work of manually creating download tables and allows additional information about each directory, and/or a link to the latest download, to be permanently displayed above the table along with an RSS feed of the files available in each directory. An example of how this looks and works can be found on the following help page along with instructions on how to configure it:

 

http://www.jboss.org/help/projectpageguide/paragraphguide/directoryListing

 

This feature was made possible by the integration of Magnolia and ModeShape in collaboration with the Magnolia Community.

 

Enjoy!

Hi all,

 

as you probably noticed, jboss.org JIRA instance running at http://issues.jboss.org has been upgraded this week to JIRA 5 and GreenHopper 5.10.

 

There is lot of interesting improvements in JIRA 5 as you can see in Release Notes. Probably most noticeable are:

  • Share issues when you need someone else to take a look at a JIRA issue or a list of issues
  • Mention users in Description and Comment fields
  • JQL enhancements to search for issues based on their history
  • Improved and more stable REST API

 

GreenHopper has been updated from 5.8 to 5.10, so you need to check two release notes:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/GreenHopper+5.9+Release+Notes

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/GreenHopper+5.10+Release+Notes

 

Main enhancements and changes:

  • Improved Rapid Board
  • Scrum graduates from Labs

 

Enjoy

Hi,


The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce new on-demand export features for the Project Documentation Editor: http://docs.jboss.org/author

 

We've introduced new export plugins with customized JBoss Community templates allowing on-demand export of documentation from Confluence to:

  • HTML (both single-page and multi-page)
  • PDF
  • EPUB (e-book format suitable for mobile devices)
  • EclipseHelp

OnDemandExport.png

 

 

Examples of exported documentation (ModeShape 2.8 Reference Guide) can be found here:

 

Every exported document contains an exact timestamp of the export and a link to the Confluence space it was exported from.

 

Availability of this feature for users is controlled by the "Page-Export" permission, which has been granted for all users on all existing Spaces.

 

 

Thanks go to K15t Software who provided us with free licenses for the export plugins.


Enjoy!

As of Thursday 10th May 2012 the JBoss Community Team are proud to announce our new search engine:

 

http://search.jboss.org/

 

This allows you to easily search across mailing lists at http://lists.jboss.org containing manual posts (i.e. not notification emails from issue trackers and build systems) and filter by Project, Time Frame, Mailing List Type and Author. You can choose to sort the results either by relevancy or newest/oldest first and use the Instant Search feature to see the results change in real-time as you type/filter your query instead of hitting the Search button. A Preview feature allows you to see the email within the thread it comes from and easily switch to other emails in the thread.

 

It's also possible to see how many more emails will be included in your search when selecting a filter option by consulting the number next to it in brackets, for example:

 

Mailing List:

-----------------

Dev (2413)

Users (864)

Announce (20)

N/A (2)

 

In addition to showing which types of mailing list are being used the most this provides a great insight into the relative usage of mailing lists across the projects as well as who is authoring the most emails

 

You can find detailed user instructions via the Help link at the top of the page which goes to:

 

https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossCommunitySearchHelp

 

In subsequent releases we aim to add more content types to the search indexes including IRC Transcripts, Blog Posts, Forum Posts, Wiki Articles and JIRA Issues. This will allow a unified search experience across all the content we host within the jboss.org infrastructure accessible from the search box in the JBoss Community header.

 

Thanks go to James Cobb and Cheyenne Weaver for the Visual Design, Lukas Koranda for helping with the rollout into the staging and production environments and tracking down performance issues, and the jboss.org development team for testing and feedback. Special thanks go to Lukas Vlcek who has led the project from the start when it was just an idea and has worked hard to produce an implementation that allows us to build-in additional functionality going forward on top of a scalable architecture.

 

For those who are interested it uses the open source project Elastic Search which allows easy up-down scaling and provides a rich full-text query API: http://www.elasticsearch.org/

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce an upgrade of the Project Documentation Editor's "Content approval" feature based on users' requests:

http://docs.jboss.org/author

 

We've introduced configurable email notifications for defined users and email addresses when content is awaiting approval. We've also introduced "Thank you" email notifications to the original contributor of the content once it's approved:


https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1213

 

Another enhancement is the possibility to configure users who can approve content (in addition to Space Administrators who approved the content in previous versions), and to configure "Trusted Contributors". Content contributed by these users needn't be approved:


https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1379

 

The new version includes some patches for minor bugs too.

 

Basic help on how to enable and use the "Content approval" feature for your documentation space is available here:


https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AUTHGUIDE/How+to+use+the+Content+Approval+feature

 

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the upgrade of FishEye (http://source.jboss.org) to the latest version 2.7. This brings a lot of new features and improvements compared to version 2.5 that we used before including:

  • Repository Commit Graph
  • Improved Support for Git Branches
  • Git Commit Authors include Email Address
  • JIRA FishEye Plugin Improvements

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the rollout of SSO for jboss.org.

 

Applications/domains involved in the SSO login are:

 

Clicking on any login link (including the one at www.jboss.org) takes you to the new SSO login page. From here you're automatically logged into all of the above applications when you visit them without need to login again.  An SSO session created using the "Remember Me" feature from the SSO login page is valid for 10 days for security reasons. After 10 days you'll be forced to login again.

 

In addition to your full name being displayed in the headers for the subdomains listed above you'll also see it in the header at http://www.jboss.org (this is done using JavaScript since it's not possible to 'login' to www.jboss,org. To edit Magnolia pages you login to http://www.jboss.org/author which is a different application.)

 

Logout links log you out from the individual applications and you're then given the option to perform an SSO logout from the relevant log out page. The only exception to this is the logout link on www.jboss.org which performs an SSO logout directly (again because you're not 'logging out' from www.jboss.org).


As part of this release we also updated the SBS user interface to have a new fluid design which gives the content more room to breath (no fixed width anymore).

 

The Website FAQ [1] and help pages [2] have been updated to include information about SSO.

 

If you experience problems logging in using the new SSO login page please try the 'I forgot my password' link which may help sort things out in the background (syncing passwords across systems for example). For problems in general please use the 'sso.jboss.org' component of our ORG JIRA project:

 

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG

 

Thanks to all members of the JBoss Community and Eng Ops Teams involved in developing, staging and rolling out SSO to production.

 

[1] https://community.jboss.org/wiki/WebsiteFAQ#Single_Sign_On

[2] http://www.jboss.org/help

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

following this Sonatype press release and Sonatype recommendation from our comminication, we removed artifacts hosted  in java.net Maven repository from public group of jboss.org Maven repository, because they are now available directly from Maven Central Repository.

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the upgrade of Magnolia CMS templates engine to the new Standard Templating Kit module.

 

With this upgrade we introduce a much requested fluid design to the project pages which allows the content to be resized to 3 different layouts according to the width of the browser. This should make the content more readable on different screen resolutions and sizes. We also fixed CSS loading to prevent a Flash Of Unstyled Content (FOUC) issue.

 

To see a full list of changes please refer to release notes - https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310330&version=12318150

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the upgrade of the Project Documentation Editor to Confluence 3.5, which brings a lot of improvements.

 

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+3.5+Release+Notes

 

We've also introduced a new "Content approval" feature. This allows space admins to better control contributions from the community, review changed parts of the documentation and approve or revert changes - https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AUTHGUIDE/How+to+use+Content+Approval+feature

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

The JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the upgrade of our JIRA instance (http://issues.jboss.org) to the latest version 4.4.1.

 

This new version brings lots of improvements, see http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.4+Release+Notes for details.

 

We also installed and configured a new plugin, so you can search and/or order issues by the number of comments and attachments:

 

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1172

 

Search/order issues by number of votes and watchers is available in JIRA too.

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

Following user feedback on the Project Documentation Editor (https://docs.jboss.org/author) the JBoss Community Team are proud to announce the availability of the following enhancements:

 

1) DocBook export is now a one-step process in Confluence and may also be called from scripts

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1122

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1123

 

This change simplifies and speeds up the project release process and allows better automation of the process. Description how to call DocBook export from the scripts is available directly on export page in Confluence under "Tools -> JBoss DocBook Export" menu item.

 

2) Allow multiple versions of project documentation in Confluence

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1127

 

This allows corrections to be easily made to older doc versions (following corrections it's still good practice to upload HTML, single-HTML and PDF versions from the generated DocBook XML to http://docs.jboss.org for completeness): https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AUTHGUIDE/How+to+release+documentation

 

3) Improvements to the DocBook import plugin to produce better wiki syntax on imported documents

 

4) Simple navigation between pages for documentation

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ORG-1096

 

This feature adds simple "< Previous | Front page | Next >" navigation above and under page content for simpler navigation over documentation guides.

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

Following a couple of releases last week the JBoss Community Team are proud to announce a couple of new paragraphs for Magnolia:

 

Project Team - http://www.jboss.org/help/projectpageguide/paragraphguide/projectTeam.html

Download Table (with confirmation page) - http://www.jboss.org/help/projectpageguide/paragraphguide/downloadtable.html

 

We'll be modifying the Project Team paragraph next to display the project lead as defined in the corresponding JIRA project. The 

confirmation page for downloads was requested by Dan Allen to help with the Call To Action (CTA) process for the JBoss AS 7 release.

 

We're also pleased to report that the latest SBS release 4.5.6.1 appears to have fixed the long-standing bug where spaces would be removed from the HTML view of the RichText Editor after a few seconds making it difficult to edit. Switching to HTML view now works as expected with spaces preserved.

 

Enjoy!

Hi,

 

Over the past week the JBoss Community Team have improved the integration of SBS and JIRA by importing over 7,000 links from the JIRA 'Forum Reference' field into the SBS 'Related Issues' widget in corresponding forum threads. The two fields are now kept in sync with each other when either is updated. We've also made the 'Forum Reference' field a multi-value field so it can store links to the JBoss, Seam or Hibernate forums as necessary.

 

We've also released 2 new paragraphs in Magnolia:

 

http://www.jboss.org/help/projectpageguide/paragraphguide/jiraissues.html

  - Display JIRA issues using a JQL query

http://www.jboss.org/help/projectpageguide/paragraphguide/tweets.html 

- Display Tweets from a user and/or by searching Twitter

 

These can both be used to improve both community and project pages by 

increasing the amount of dynamic content shown.

 

Enjoy!

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