Copenhagen Meetup

An informal conversation about Alfresco, the release of 5.0, and where we are heading.

Transcript

1. Four Presentations About Alfresco November 2014 Richard Esplin
2. What Am I Uniquely Qualified to Share? • Who are you? • Did you attend Summit? • Topics for discussion. • Adapt to your interest.
3. Discussion (Throughout)
4. Part 1: The Alfresco Community November 2014 Richard Esplin
5. The Alfresco Community • How does Alfresco make decisions? • How does Alfresco think about “the community”? • What role do you play in that community? • What feedback do you have? + Office hours with Thomas de Meo
6. Segmenting the Community • Systems Administrators • Developers • Open Source Enthusiasts • Information Science Professionals + Archivists, Librarians, Records Managers • Business Owners • End Users
7. Community Edition vs Enterprise Edition • Community Edition: successfully meeting core ECM and Collaboration use cases + Self supported (no lock-in, if you put in the work) + Horizontal capabilities • Enterprise Edition: support, proprietary integrations, scalability, niche functionality, vertical solutions • Benefits of differentiation
8. Thomas’ Questions • What do you think of recent releases of Community Edition? • What criteria should we have around code submissions so that the Engineering Team can prioritize the most high quality submissions? • What gaps exist in Community Edition that we should fill? • How can we better engage with our developer community? • What UI best practices should we adopt as community standards? • What are adjacent open source projects that we should be collaborating with and integrating with? • How can we improve the way we curate our directory of add-ons? What should we do with old or obsolete add-ons?
9. Security Advisory 7 • Pre 5.0.b • File Download Vulnerability (High) + Admin only • TaskID Injection (Medium) + Any user • Control Wrapper Injection (Medium) + Admin only
10. Part 2: Goodies in Alfresco Community Edition 5.0 November 2014 Richard Esplin
11. Out of the Box Experience • Systems Administrators vs Developers • Installer environment validation • Did I mention Maven?
12. Libraries • Upgrades + Spring 3.2.10 + MyBatis 3.2.7 + Activiti 5.16.2 + Solr 4.9.1 + TinyMCE 4 + ImageMagick 6.8.6 + OpenCMIS 0.11.0 Dependencies • Java 7 • Tomcat 7 • PostgreSQL 9.3.5 • LibreOffice 4.2.5 • Surf + No longer an external dependency
13. User Interface • Aikau • Search + URL fragments history, faceted search, infinite scroll, inline actions, live search, exploratory search (suggest, spell check, did you mean?) • HTML5 pdf.js Previewer • Site Administration • Analytics Dashlets
14. Activity Feed Configuration • New activity notifications: preview, download • Higher performance: multi-threaded • Kevin Roast’s blog post + http://blogs.alfresco. com/wp/kevinr/2014/10/14/configuring-alfresco- activity-stream/ + RSS feeds used by doc lib: custom-web-context.xml + Emails: custom-activities-feed-context.xml + Dashlets: site-activities.get.config.xml
15. Documentation Improvements • Administering + http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/ch- administering.html • Configuration Files and Properties • Developing + http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/dev- for-developers.html
16. Part 3: Important Changes in Community Edition 5.0 November 2014 Richard Esplin
17. Permanent Removals • 3.x CMIS API • “CML” SOAP API • JCR * JCR-RMI • URL Addressability API • Flex SDK • Forms Development Kit • Web Framework Samples • KB Sample App • Benchmark v1 • Google Docs v1 • Records Management v1 • Google Gadgets • Liferay Portlets • Blog Publishing • Social Publishing • Lucene • Explorer UI • AVM
18. Temporary Removals • Tenant Console • Workflow Console • Dynamic Model Console ALF-2133 Expect to address in 5.1.a Tie in the Activiti console?
19. Deprecated • NFS • jBPM
20. Future Changes • De-Coupled Module Releases + RM + Google Docs • Focus on Out-of-the-box Experience • End of WAR install?
21. Future Cleaning • We are done (for now). • Going forward, it will be easier to communicate in advance. • Thank pmonks!
22. Configuration Files • Configuration files moved into the JARs • Sysadmins: docs will provide info + With the release of 5.0 Enterprise • Developers: Use the source + Maven SDK source JARs + SVN • ALF21120 and ACE3025
23. Part 4: Alfresco SDK 2.0 (Maven SDK) November 2014 Richard Esplin
24. Maven • Getting started with the Maven SDK + http://docs.alfresco. com/community/concepts/alfresco-sdk-intro.html + https://artifacts.alfresco. com/nexus/content/repositories/alfresco- docs/alfresco-sdk-aggregator/latest/index.html + https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/