XWiki 1.1 summary

Hello, There are only a few weeks left before the final 1.1 release. There has been a lot of work put in this release (although even more work was needed), and we've already started working on the first 1.2 milestone. Past A short summary of the closed issues thus far: - 215 issues in xwiki-platform (102 bugs, 81 improvements, 15 new features) - 32 issues in xwiki-enterprise - 15 issues in panels-application So this was mainly a bugfixing release, which means that now we have a more stable platform, and an enjoyable default wiki. There have been very few new features, as there was not enough manpower. The best achievement in my opinion is the new build architecture, with the platform separated from the default wiki, and internally separated into several modules (core, web, plugins...). Present If everything goes right, we still have two more RC releases before the final 1.1. These should not contain any changes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_candidate#Release_candidate ), but only critical fixes. That's why we should stop committing things in the 1.1 branch, unless it is a critical bug fix. In order to be able to make a proper release on the 27th, I'd propose a code freeze on the 1.1 branch at 6 A.M. GMT 26th of August, with everybody giving a hand on testing on sunday, and a quick release on monday. Future We started with a list of expectations ( http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/FeaturesFor11 ) which was only in very small parts covered, mostly because we concentrated on bufixes. The good news is that we'll be able to concentrate on new features from now on, and we can hope that most of these goals will be covered in the 1.2 release. However, there are still 162 issues marked as bugs in the platform (of which 39 in the core), so there's still work on bugfixing. The current WYSIWYG editor is cracking; every new fix/feature causes another thing that was working before to fail, and we don't have enough tests for the moment to automatically detect this. The complexity is increasing, which makes the editor unusable on slow systems or for large documents. With Nam leaving, we won't have a person that knows the code well to take his place. This is why we must concentrate on the new GWT-based editor ( http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/WikiModel+and+GWT+Wyswiyg+Architec… ) and hope that in 3 months we'll have a fully functional editor. Another direction would be the component-based architecture. Vincent already committed a proof-of-concept in xwiki-sandbox/xwiki-components, which looks good, but contains very few things. It seems easy to write in this manner, so we should try and have a working core based on this architecture. Thanks to all that contributed to the 1.1 release, Sergiu -- http://purl.org/net/sergiu