I have put the Roadmap on
http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Roadmap

Thanks
-Vincent

On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> 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
> 

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