Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XE 1.9 + XE 2.0 + Roadmap for XE 1.9

Hi devs, XE 2.0 ===== We've had discussion about XE 2.0 in the past. I think now is the right time to release it and we should prepare to do so. Two reasons; 1) We've had a lot of new features (new rendering, new wysiwyg, webdav, REST, office import, usability improvements, etc) added recently in 1.8 and this alone warrants calling it 2.0. The new rendering and new wysiwyg could be set as default in XE 2.0. 2) XE 1.0 marked a stability level. XE 2.0 will mark another stability level (I'm thinking about the old wysiwyg editor which could be said to be stable...) 3) It's been almost exactly 2 years since we released XE 1.0, it's high time for a major release. However since we still have a bit of work to fully finish the new rendering and new wysiwyg and since we want user feedback from 1.8 to ensure we get a rock solid 2.0 release I propose to have a XE 1.9 release before the XE 2.0 (which would be a promotion of XE 1.9 final with the config change to have new syntax/wysiwyg as defaults). The other advantage of releasing XE 2.0 is that we want to start the maintenance period for the old rendering/old wysiwyg as early as possible to get new people to use the new system. Once 2.0 is released we'll continue releasing bugfix versions of 1.9.x from time to time but we'll advise people to switch to 2.x. I propose we keep support for the old 1.0 syntax (either using the old code or using the 1.0 --> 2.0 syntax converter) for 1 year. This is the time we have to make our existing users switch to the new syntax. Note that with the automatic converters it shouldn't be something too difficult. Roadmap for XE 1.9 ================ General:It's a stabilization release meaning we must resist putting new things in it and fix what doesn't work well enough. Content proposal: * Finish/stabilize/document new rendering - Thomas/Vincent

* Finish/stabilize/document new wysiwyg editor - Marius/Anca * Finish/stabilize/document office importer + doc splitter/ management - Asiri * Finish/stabilize/document webdav - Asiri * Finish/stabilize/document REST support - Fabio * Finish/stabilize/document new blog application - Sergiu/Guillaume * Continue UI improvements (ex: new treeview, new search interface, full list to be defined) - JV/Ecaterina/Guillaume * Fix search using lucene plugin - ???? * Finish XE French translations - JV/Guillaume * Fix other bugs (watchlist, page names with special chars, etc) - All * Refactoring of apps to use more of SSX - Jerome?

Note: I don't think we can commit to have a new skin system or a new skin in place for the 1.9 timeframe. Proposed Dates: * 1.9M1: 6 April * 1.9M2: 4 May * 1.9RC1: 18 May * 1.9RC2/Final: 1 June * 2.0: 15 June WDYT? Thanks -Vincent