On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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? > > Yes. I meant at least two things : > > * Activate annotations as a default setting > * Have annotations displayed even when JavaScript is not available > (that means moving code from the annotation application to the > platform - but that's another story) > > And a third item, a bit more ambitious (so maybe for 2.7 ?) : > > * Fusion annotations with comments (at least in the U. Probably in the > storage (read: XClass) by default too - to make the UI easier to > write). Comments would then become annotations without a context. > > That would already be great.
Are you proposing to implement these features yourself? If not, we need someone to volunteer. Thanks -Vincent > Jerome. > >> >>> 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. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
