[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Delay the 6.4 release by introducing a milestone

Hi devs, When we look at our roadmap at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/ we can see that there are some issues that we wanted fixed in 6.4 and that are not done yet and they wouldn’t fit in a RC: - batch mail feature (ability to send large volumes of mails) - several outstanding issues for flamingo - "Move the "Pretty Name" and Description sections from the Main Wiki to their respective subwiki Administration page” - "Extension Manager add extension search should suggest only compatible versions - Addition of Ratings feature in Repository app In summary, we’re very very late and not in a good shape, and holidays are coming soon… So I’m proposing the following: - release 6.4M2 this week (Edy to do the release) - add a 6.4M3 release spanning 2 weeks, to be released on 5th - move the RC to 12th of Jan - move the final to 19th of Jan. Overall this means a delay of 3 weeks compared to our initial plan of: - 6.4M1: --1st of Dec-- 3rd of Dec - 6.4M2: 15 Dec - 6.4RC1: 22 Dec - 6.4Final: 29 Dec This is not nice obviously since it impacts our ability to start XWiki 7.0 at beginning of January but I don’t see any other option. Note that the reason why it’s important to have these features in 6.x is because a lot of users are still on 5.x or older and are going to move to 6.x during the coming year and it’ll be another year before they move to some XWiki 7.x release so we need to close the 6.x cycle nicely. Also note that I’ve considered adding a 6.5 release but I think it’s better to extend 6.4 because: - our cycles go from N.0 to N.4 - adding a full release would delay the starting date of 7.0 dev even more Also note that we’ll probably have 6.4.1, 6.4.2, … stabilization releases too. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent