Re: [xwiki-devs] Roadmap for Platform/XE 1.3 release

On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:29 PM, justanotheradress wrote: What about it? :) It's already supported... Or maybe you're talking about XEM?

> vmassol wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Here are some general directions that Sergiu and I are proposing for >> the XE 1.3 roadmap. 3 domains: >> >> 1) Work on automated testing. >> >> Examples: >> - add more selenium tests >> - start evaluating using VMs for setting up different test >> environments (Oracle + IE, XEM + MySQL, etc) >> >> 2) Clean up >> >> Examples: >> - Extract skins into separate modules >> - Factor skin templates all in one place >> - Make it easy for someone to create a new skin >> - Code cleanup for more Javadoc in APIs >> >> 3) Improved performances >> >> Examples: >> - Run XE with a profiler and find bottlenecks >> - Reduce number of HTTP requests done by the browser (about 50 right >> now) >> - Reduce number of database calls >> >> NOTE: In addition to this Sergiu is proposing to work on the >> Interface >> Extensions design and I'm going to work on the new rendering engine. >> These are not planned in the 1.3 roadmap. They'll be done on >> branches >> and only integrated when ready. >> >> So this means that 1.3 will be mostly a "cleanup" release with no or >> little new features but more bug fixes and cleaning things. >> >> In term of dates here's the proposal: >> >> 25 Jan: 1.3 M1 >> 15 Feb: 1.3M2 >> 29 Feb: 1.3 RC1 >> 14 Mar: 1.3 Final >> >> Let me know what you think. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent