It's also about New Year's Eve. A lot o people usually take time off during that period, as you probably know, and will not be available for releases (stabilization, bugxifing, testfixing, etc).
IMO, we should either pick a date that is between Christmas and New Year's Eve (though I don`t see much success in that either), or just release around them, like +/- 1 week or something, that's if we don`t want to promise stuff and end up delaying due to lack of people to fix release issues. Note: I am not familiar with how previous year releases around the holidays worked out so, if, based on experience, you still consider that it's still a good idea, please ignore my comments. Thanks, Eduard On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> 4.4 and 4.5 are the last 2 stabilization releases for the 4.x cycle. As > >> such they are meant to be short releases (1 month per release) and the > idea > >> is to have: > >> - 4.4: December > >> - 4.5: January > >> > >> This will allow us to start working on 5.0 at the beginning of February. > >> > >> Thus for 4.4 (and 4.5) I propose to work on the following stabilizations > >> (we shouldn't work on new features): > >> > >> * AWM stabilization. Assignee: Marius > >> ** Remove the i18n hack and use the new localization module to create a > >> translation bundle for the application > >> ** Add new field types (for page, image and attachment at least, with > >> pickers) > >> ** Improve the title and content fields (e.g. prevent dragging more than > >> one title or content field) > >> > >> * Extension Manager. Specifically we still need to able to > install/upgrade > >> a wiki farm in a few minutes. Assignee: Thomas/Marius > >> ** XWIKI-8252: Migration from an older version will cause many merge > >> conflicts with the Distribution Manager > >> ** XWIKI-8443: When uninstalling a XAR extension a question should be > >> asked for various conflict use cases > >> ** Find a way to allow having each wiki admin doing upgrade instead of > >> upgrading the whole farm by a farm admin which don't always know how to > fix > >> conflict like in myxwiki.org for example > >> ** XWIKI-8173 (EM should not allow installing package exposing an > >> installed feature) > >> > >> * Translation module stabilizations/improvements. Assignee: Thomas > >> ** XWIKI-8263 (Allow providing translations in a jar extension). > >> > >> * SOLR improvements: we need to continue working on it and we can decide > >> in the course of 4.4/4.5 if it's good enough to be made the default > search > >> or if we need to wait for 5.x to make it the default. Assignee: Edy > >> > >> * Usability: small usability improvements. Assignee: Caty/JV. Caty/JV, > >> could you please list what you'd like to work on? > >> > >> * Workspace bug fixes (there are some raised by Anca for example). > >> Assignee: Edy > >> > >> * And a lot of bug fixes. Manuel reported a lot of browsers issue for IE > >> that we need to fix > >> > >> Anything else committers/contributors would like to work on for 4.4? > >> > >> Dates > >> ===== > >> > >> 4.4M1: 17 Dec > >> 4.4RC1: 31 Dec > >> > > > > Are we sure this is a realistic date? > > I don't understand what you mean. Because of Christmas? I already > mentioned that I gave it one more week as we usually do because of this. > > > I think we should reconsider this > > now, instead of (almost certainly) delaying it on the spot, and looking > bad. > > Any date is a good date. Even one week from now is good date. You just > need to adjust what you're going to tackle during the timeframe that's all > (that's called timeboxing). > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > > Thanks, > > Eduard > > > > 4.4Final: 7 January > >> > >> Note that I'd have normally put RC1 on 24th but since that's the > Christmas > >> holidays, I've given RC1 2 weeks instead. > >> > >> Can everyone review what I've put tentatively and tell me if it's ok? > Also > >> could you create the associated JIRA issues and reply to this email with > >> them so that I can prepare the roadmap page on xwiki.org? > >> > >> Thanks a lot > >> -Vincent > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
