On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi JV,
We
I guess this means you've discussed this with Marius and Anca.
Yes.
don't think it's possible to have the UI implemented till the end of december for the following reasons:
1) We must take into account that december is .. december, with its days off so we should count 3 weeks and not 4. 2) Fixing bugs of the current features will keep the WYSIWYG team busy for around 2 weeks.
Are you talking about known bugs or doing a guess of bugs that'll be discovered? If it's known bugs then I think we should them in JIRA to decide if we release or not and when since we shouldn't release a 1.7 final with known wysiwyg bugs unless they're minor.
We've created JIRA issues : http://tinyurl.com/6hsaqg
You're right to say that waiting for 1.8 is too long, we could do the following :
- Release 1.7.1 around december 15th with WYSIWYG bugfixes, probably some minor UI improvements (no use of an external widget toolkit).
Sounds good provided these are new bugs discovered after 1.7 final is released or they are minor bugs.
- Prepare a WYSIWYG UI roadmap ending during january end (just before 1.8M2), release XE 1.7.2 somewhere during the last week of january.
Can we stagger this? (this was my initial idea) By stagger I mean that once a UI is done we release a point version. This is why I was suggesting releasing some of the UI features in December. For example wouldn't it be possible to have the link UI only done before year end?
I don't think so, at least not the final UI. What we'll have for sure before year end is a lot of bugfixes. It would be possible to stagger UI improvements shipments in january but I'm not convinced by the idea. Minor version releases are supposed to be bugfix releases, while I think it's ok to have one of those releases (1.7.2) to include major WYSIWYG UI improvements I think it would be overkill to multiply them. I think one minor release per week with minor UI improvements would discourage people upgrading their wiki.
Also have you thought about the deadline for finishing our discussion on the various. I think we need to hurry up a bit more, closing open discussions and starting new ones more quickly.
Yes, after we'll have agree on the current vote I'll come up with 4 major proposals (link,image,table,macro). Thanks, JV.