[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki Days for the 6.x cycle

Hi devs, We’ve done one year of BFD on the 5.x cycle and this has allowed us to reach a greater goal: one of having caught up with the number of open bugs. We’ve first succeeded in closing more bugs than there has been created bugs over a year, then over 2 years, then over 3 years, then over 4 years and we’re very close to succeed for the  last 1600 days (ie 4.4 years)! :) I’d like to congratulate everyone on this achievement which is really awesome. I don’t know a lot of other projects who’ve had this kind of success so we can be proud of ourselves! Current result can be seen at: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352 Note that there are still 357 opened bugs which were created since the beginning of the project.  My feeling is that it’s hard to keep the sustained pace we’ve set on the BFD days and I think we need a bit of fresh air. Also now that we’ve caught up with bugs I believe the most important part is to just try to contain the bug ratio so that we’re about even in term of number of new bugs vs umber of bugs we close. If we can achieve this it would already be a very nice success. So what I’m proposing for the 6.x cycle is this: - one week out of 2 we continue doing a BFD - the other week we do a rolling XWiki Day on another activity Here’s a list of other activities we could do (first mentioned in this thread: http://markmail.org/message/a5ew5ilbgxvf67lu ): A) Doc Fixing Day: improve xwiki.org B) Deprecation Fixing Day: reduce # of deprecated calls and move code to legacy C) Violation Fixing Dy: reduce # of violations. 12K right now on platform for ex (see http://sonar.xwiki.org/drilldown/issues/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform) D) Javadoc Improvement Day: Add missing javadocs in our code and remove checkstyle excludes E) Code Coverage Day: Add as many tests as possible (unit and functional) to increase the TPC F) Broken Links Day: fix as many broken links as possible on xwiki.org. To find them is easy: we just need to enable the IRC Link Checker botlet and wait on IRC to get them listed! G) Others you would consider interesting? The only constraint for defining a day is that it contains small elements that can be fixed quickly which is the case for the proposals listed above. So what I propose to be precise: - one week out of 2 we do a BFD - the other week we do one of each (A through F). Then once we’ve done a full round we decide which ones are the best for the project, which ones we want to drop and which ones we want to repeat more often than others. I also propose that the 6th and 13th we still do a BFD and on the 20th of Feb we start doing A, then BFD, then B, etc. WDYT? Any other proposal or better idea? Thanks -Vincent