On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > 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)
Could you be more specific re annotations? > I'm OK to work on that if we agree we want it. For 2.6? Thanks -Vincent > > 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
