On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/2010 09:31 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to propose that we have a short XE 2.6 release. The >> rationale is that we've been developing lots of new features in the >> past releases and I think it's time to stabilize what we have. By >> stabilize I mean: - fix bugs - homogenize UI - clean up stuff >> (refactoring, etc) > > I don't quite agree with only one quick release, but instead I'd propose > to sprint for a winter 3.0 release. I believe that since 2.0 we've added > (or started) enough new features to make up for a major release. > > So, I'd propose monthly releases until we get a polished version ready > to be promoted as 3.0. This means that the number of new features should > be kept to a minimum, trying to finish all the stuff that was already > started: gadgets, portlets (a bit difficult, so this is not a hard > requirement), new UIs (administration, multipage export, standard forms, > maybe rights), xwiki/2.1 syntax, extension manager.
I would like to add "annotations" to this list (especially making them work w/o JS and and activated by default) I'm OK to work on that if we agree we want it. Jerome. > >> In addition we have 2 features we had planned for 2.5 which have >> slipped and we could finish them in 2.6 too (Sergiu said he was >> almost done with the "Email this page" feature and didn't have the >> time to slip it in the 2.5): >> - Email this page: Sergiu >> - Recent Activity (refactoring of Recent Changes based on the Activity >> Stream): Raluca + Caty + JV to apply the patch >> >> The idea would be to have the following dates: >> - 2.6RC1: 1st of November 2010 (there's no M1) >> - 2.6 final: 18h of November > > I'd move the RC one week later. > >> If we agree, is there anyone who'd like to be the release manager for >> this release? If nobody volunteers I can do it. > > I could do it as well, if nobody else volunteers. > >> If we agree, I'll send another mail afterwards with some ideas for XE >> 2.7 and a potential XE 3.0 release. Note that XE 2.6 would be a first >> step in stabilizing XE for an upcoming 3.0 release :) But even >> without this vision doing a short stabilization release from time to >> time is always a good think I believe. It's also not too long so that >> people don't need to hold new stuff for too long. > > We could already create a 3.1 branch/trunk for new stuff when needed, > although this will increase the number of maintained branches a bit too > much. To help here, we can decide not to do maintainance releases for > the 2.6+ branches, since these are short releases. > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
