[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XS 10.2 and 10.3 roadmaps - Bug fix releases

Hi devs, We have already started defining the roadmap for XS 10.2, see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/#HXWiki11.2 However, it’s come to my realization that we’re having a lot of stability issue on XS these days. I see plenty of users messages on the forum about users failing to use XWiki or to upgrade XWiki and having problems in general. I have the feeling that our quality has regressed. If we check our number of bugs created vs number of bugs closed for 2018, we can clearly see that we’re loosing the battle since Feb/March 2018, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352#Created-vs-… Since Feb/March we’re at 820 vs 963 which means we have a relative difference of 143 bugs. Note that the BFD sessions are not enough and they don’t close a lot of bugs anymore (this can be seen on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki%20Days). I believe that XWiki’s stability and reducing user frustration for installation/upgrades is a key aspect and it’s one of the biggest possible contributor to Active Installs. Thus I’m proposing to devote 2 releases (i.e. 2 months) to focus on bug fixing and thus on XWiki stability, namely * XS 10.2 * XS 10.3 Note that this is something that I’ve already discussed with committers from XWiki SAS. Please voice your opinion if you disagree (or even if you agree, always good to get confirmation we’re going in the right direction ;)). Thanks -Vincent