[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for 4.4

Hi devs, 4.4 and 4.5 are the last 2 stabilization releases for the 4.x cycle. As such they are meant to be short releases (1 month per release) and the idea is to have: - 4.4: December - 4.5: January This will allow us to start working on 5.0 at the beginning of February. Thus for 4.4 (and 4.5) I propose to work on the following stabilizations (we shouldn't work on new features): * AWM stabilization. Assignee: Marius ** Remove the i18n hack and use the new localization module to create a translation bundle for the application ** Add new field types (for page, image and attachment at least, with pickers) ** Improve the title and content fields (e.g. prevent dragging more than one title or content field) * Extension Manager. Specifically we still need to able to install/upgrade a wiki farm in a few minutes. Assignee: Thomas/Marius ** XWIKI-8252: Migration from an older version will cause many merge conflicts with the Distribution Manager ** XWIKI-8443: When uninstalling a XAR extension a question should be asked for various conflict use cases ** Find a way to allow having each wiki admin doing upgrade instead of upgrading the whole farm by a farm admin which don't always know how to fix conflict like in myxwiki.org for example ** XWIKI-8173 (EM should not allow installing package exposing an installed feature) * Translation module stabilizations/improvements. Assignee: Thomas ** XWIKI-8263 (Allow providing translations in a jar extension). * SOLR improvements: we need to continue working on it and we can decide in the course of 4.4/4.5 if it's good enough to be made the default search or if we need to wait for 5.x to make it the default. Assignee: Edy * Usability: small usability improvements. Assignee: Caty/JV. Caty/JV, could you please list what you'd like to work on? * Workspace bug fixes (there are some raised by Anca for example). Assignee: Edy * And a lot of bug fixes. Manuel reported a lot of browsers issue for IE that we need to fix Anything else committers/contributors would like to work on for 4.4? Dates ===== 4.4M1: 17 Dec 4.4RC1: 31 Dec 4.4Final: 7 January Note that I'd have normally put RC1 on 24th but since that's the Christmas holidays, I've given RC1 2 weeks instead. Can everyone review what I've put tentatively and tell me if it's ok? Also could you create the associated JIRA issues and reply to this email with them so that I can prepare the roadmap page on xwiki.org? Thanks a lot -Vincent