[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Roadmap for XE 3.1 + discussion on XE 3.x cycle dates

Hi devs, It's time for the roadmap planning again. After a first round of offline discussions with several committers here's a proposal for XE 3.1. Please correct or add other things if I've missed anything. Must have ======== - Extension Manager: Thomas and UI person (Jerome) (Cati needed for additional mockups). Thomas to define more precisely the list of features he'd like to implement for XE 3.1 - Performance Improvements: Marius, maybe Caleb if available. Marius needs to prepare an action plan ASAP since "perf improvements" in general is too vague. Caleb, you mentioned you'd be ok to implement support for marge number of XObjects if you have the time, right? - New backend implementation of Rights: Sergiu. Requires proposals/discussions since it's large and complex beast. - "Application Within Minutes": continue investigation (Ludovic), committers to review the Design page and since it's a large feature we need to break it down into individual tasks and start implementing some of them in 3.1. Sergiu volunteered for implementing some of them. Ludovic volunteered to do the breakdown. - Search improvements and especially scoring, French support and wildcard issues: Sergiu - Friends and Status polishing: Sergiu, but not clear what needs to be done except "Privacy" which is needed - Dashboard/Gadgets polishing: Anca (Anca could you detail what you'd like to implement?) - Stabilization of the new Filesystem storage implementation for attachments (bugfixing, performance, etc): Caleb Nice to have ========== - Statistics polishing: ? - XE/XEM Home Page investigation and mockups: Ludovic & Caty - XEM Workspaces investigation/review: ? - More modules moved out of xwiki-core. Candidates: xwiki-url, xwiki-action, xwiki-localization, new xwiki-resources: Vincent to work on this Proposed Dates ============= - XE 3.1M1: 25 april - XE 3.1M2: 16 May - XE 3.1RC1: 30 May - XE 3.1 final: 13 June That's about 2.5 months. Note that at this rate we won't have time to reach XE 3.7 by the end of the year (end of the cycle). So we'll need to decide at some point if: a) we consider that a cycle is less major releases (say 5 only if we keep 2.5 months/release) b) we consider that a cycle spans a year (time-based) and it doesn't matter if we're at 3.5 or 3.11 at the end of the year, we consider the last release of the year to be the end of the cycle c) we consider that 2.5 months is too long for release cycles and we reduce it. To have 7 releases we need to reduce to 1.5 months per release roughly (that could be 2 weeks for M1, 2 weeks for M2, 1 week for RC1, 1 week for final). My preference goes to b) right now and when we'll have moved more stuff out of the old xwiki-core into new modules, it'll be easier to have tests committed when code is committed and thus we'll be able to move to c) IMO. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent