On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > 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
* Thomas is the main person who'll be working on this but I'll help where needed since there are 50+ issues scheduled for 1.9. I'll try to help working on issues blocking other devs. > * 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? * I'll also work on one issue dear to Ludovic: active installs tracking (see my other mail) * As usual I'll spend most of my time to try to ensure overall quality/ deadline respect/coordination between people * I won't work on a specific domain for this release, instead trying to help wherever I can on low hanging fruits. Thanks -Vincent > 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
