[xwiki-dev] General goals for the 1.1 release

[Vincent Massol]

On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I agree with 1, 2 and 4. I think that the most important things for  
> users are 1 and 2, with strong emphasis on fixing the security  
> holes, and making the skin+wiki the best on the market. For  
> developers and administrators, 4 is important too.
>
> I'm not so sure about 3. It depends on the elements, and how stable  
> is the architecture. I don't see the point of committing the  
> component based engine, if we don't have any components defined.

oh that's not what I meant. I meant once we have a first component  
implemented (like for example the refactored Import) in the 2.0  
branch we could backport it to the trunk. It may or may not be  
possible though but I think that's an experiment we'll need to make.

> On the other hand, 4 months after 1.0 should be after the SoC  
> deadline, so we could introduce some new features deployed in the  
> program, if they are well written and stable enough.

Good point. However I think they might come too late for 1.1 so I'd  
rather we schedule them for 1.2, unless of course some of the soc  
projects bring small and easy improvements to the core. That said,  
it's really on a case by case basis as they're all different. Some  
like the IDE editor don't have much impact on XWiki core, other like  
the storage engine improvements have important impacts.

Thanks
-Vincent

> On 4/23/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As we're getting closer to the 1.0 release we need to start thinking
> about the 1.1 goals.
>
> Things I'd like to propose for 1.1:
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Note 1: I proposed a few weeks ago that we should a main release
> every 3-4 months, with beta releases every 2-3 weeks. I didn't get
> much answer and I concluded that it was ok for most of you. So we
> need to consider that time frame in mind for deciding the overall
> goal of the 1.1 release. Let's not be too ambitious...
>
> Note 2: The points below are listed by order of importance to me
>
> 1) There are still 108 bugs in JIRA. As a consequence I think one
> main goal of 1.1 is going to be the consolidation of 1.0.
>
> 2) Focus on making the default wiki a wiki that is a good as the
> wikis out there. This includes improvements to the look & feel/skin
> and to its usability. I don't think we need more features, we just
> need each feature to be better implemented: more polished, more
> intuitive, more documented, nicer looking.
>
> 3) Start introducing XWiki 2.0 architecture elements in it. Even
> though XWiki 2.0 will probably be done in a separate branch I think
> we should start backporting stuff that'll be done in that branch to
> 1.1 when possible.
>
> 4) Switch to a Maven2 build
>
> WDYT and what would you want to see in the 1.1 release?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
> Sergiu
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