+1 Thanks, Caty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On 11/27/2012 06:26 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >>> On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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. > >>> That's what I've tried to do: > >>> * M1 before christmas > >>> * RC1 after christmas (one week after) > >>> * Final after new year's eve (one week after) > >>> > >>> That was the best dates I was able to find unless we want to postpone > by 1 month more… > >>> > >>> If you can think of better dates please suggest them. > >> > >> I agree with Eduard that between Xmas and NYE would be better than the > 31th. > >> > >> If I were to be the RM, I'm would be more likely to prefer releasing > RC1 on the 27th/28th or 29th rather than on the 31th. > > > > ah indeed you're right, I had missed that :) > > > > So new dates: > > > > * 4.4M1: 10th of December (in 2 week from now) > > * 4.4RC1: 17th of December > > * 4.4Final: 27th of December (between Xmas and NY) > > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > > > > Thanks! > > -Vincent > > > >> Jerome. > >> > >>> > >>>> 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. > >>> It's probably a bit chaotic but I feel it's better than postponing by > 1 month altogether, especially since want to be able to start the 5.x cycle > ASAP (we're all eager to start it :)) and also to slowly align it to the > beginning of the year. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> -Vincent > >>> > >>>> 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
