XWiki 1.0 roadmap status as of 5th March 2007

[Vincent Massol]

Hi everyone,

Here's a status on the 1.0 roadmap:

* Beta 5 was supposed to be released last monday. I'll cut the  
release tomorrow. So that's one week late... Good news is that we  
have  preliminary working support for page rename in it (it renames  
backlinks)... (but no GUI for it yet) ;-)

* We still have 52 opened issues for 1.0...

* We were supposed to release RC1 next week but in view of this I  
don't think it's reasonable to do so with so many issues.

* We've implemented more features and improvements than we had  
planned for 1.0 which is one reason for being late (things like  
Internationalization of xwiki apps, improvements to calendar, etc).  
Other reason is that we're having regressions (due to our lack of  
automated functional tests) and more bug created than anticipated I  
believe.

* Out of the remaining 52 opened issues I've counted 33 issues which  
are either improvements/new features or documentation tasks. Thus in  
practice we have "only" something like 19 real issues. That's more  
manageable.

Proposal
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* I think we'll need another B6 that'll run from Monday onwards and  
for 2 weeks, i.e. till the 19th of March. This means that RC1 would  
be released only on the 2nd of April.

* Seen the extra delay I propose to vote RC1 as final one week after  
the RC1 release instead of 2, i.e. release 1.0 final on the 9th of  
April (just one day after my birthday ;-)).

* We really need help from the community on the easy tasks,  
especially on the documentation ones listed on http://jira.xwiki.org/ 
jira/browse/XWIKI-586

* Committers try to focus on fixing bugs in the outstanding list:  
http://tinyurl.com/2arvjf

* There are special 2 areas of focus I think:
- WYSIWYG editor: lots of people are using it or waiting for it to  
stabilize. It's been getting much better but we need to run thorough  
tests on it and squash the last remaining bugs
- PDF generation. We have lots of issues for it. I think we need to  
have it working at least for exporting single pages. PDF export for a  
full site would also be nice to have though (there's some code that  
worked in the past but I don't think it's currently working anymore)

WDYT about this proposal? Anything else to add? Any other proposal?

Thanks
-Vincent