XWiki 1.0 roadmap status as of 5th March 2007

[Vincent Massol]

After discussing with Sergiu and Nam on IRC we think it's better to  
increase B6's duration by one week in view of the number of remaining  
issues.

That means:
- B6 released on 26 March
- RC1 on 9 April
- Final on 16 April or one week after (not decided yet)

-Vincent

On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> 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
> -----------
>
> * 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
>