On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Arvind Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1 > > Are there any other options to CKeditor? > I would like contribute with documentation of new features. > Should be consider to have new xwiki.org design along with new UI? > Hi Arvind, Depending on what skin variant we choose, please read the related mail http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/3l57w5hjry56imu5 Currently xwiki.org is using the Junco skin. Thanks, Caty > > -arvind > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:23 PM, [email protected] <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Of course this is only the work planned by the committers I mentioned. > > > > For the other committers, feel free to add stuff you'd like to work on in > > 6.0 so that we can add it to our global roadmap. > > > > Note: I'll put all this on > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/WebHome in a few days if > > people agree about it. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > On 28 Jan 2014 at 11:17:29, [email protected] ([email protected]) > wrote: > > > > Hi devs, > > > > XWiki 6.0 > > ======== > > > > As usual here's a proposal resulting from discussions I've had with XWiki > > committers who work at XWiki SAS for 6.0. > > > > * Collaborative Applications (Meeting, Calendar, (new) Forum, Tasks, > > Doodle, Photo) - Caty to work on usability and design (she's started > > already at http://design.xwiki.org if you wish to follow the work). > > Andrea who's a contributor is helping on the test + implementation part. > > There might be another contributor joining too. This work is currently > done > > inside xwiki-contrib. > > > > * New skin! Caty for the design and Guillaume Delhumeau for the > > implementation part. We've been dreaming about this skin for a while. > Caty > > has whet our appetite with screenshots from Junco ( > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/JuncoSkin and > > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Junco+Skin) and > from > > Flamingo (http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/Skin4x). > > The idea is to establish new strong foundations for new skins (like > > standardizing on bootstrap classes for example) + have a new L&F. Caty > and > > Guillaume will make proposals on the list about this. > > > > * At last we agreed to work on identifying performances issues > (especially > > page load times) and work to fix them! Thomas is in charge of leading > this > > extra important domain. One idea is to establish some automated tests to > > measure current performances and get a baseline so that we can then > monitor > > our progress and start fixing things (and ensure we keep getting better > all > > the time in the future). Thomas will send some proposals on the list too > on > > this to let us know how he plans to tackle performance improvements. > > > > * Of course we need to keep some time to fix any remaining issues we get > > on the major feature we developed in 5.x + some improvements. I'm > thinking > > about our SOLR search, Multiwiki integration, EM/DW, scalable > > import/export, etc. Thomas needs to finish the scalable import feature > > which is already well under way (see below). > > > > * Marius agreed to lead an investigation on CKEditor to see if it would > > make sense for us to use it as a replacement of our homemade editor. The > > general issue is that maintaining a WYSIWYG editor takes time and this is > > not really our core business at xwiki. We have 2 choices basically: have > > someone constantly working on improving our WYSIWYG editor or integrate > an > > existing one so that we can benefit from the work of others. In the past > > few years we haven't added that many features to our editor so it's time > > to evaluate the feasibility and cost of using an external editor such as > > CKEditor. > > > > * The way users develop applications in XWiki hasn't changed much over > the > > past 10 years. Since then there's been an explosion in the area of JS > > frameworks. We want to make it super easy to develop modern applications > > using XWiki (read ajaxy applications with new dev models). Marius agreed > to > > lead this investigation along with the help of Guillaume Delhumeau. Since > > it's an important aspect of XWiki and a complex one, they'll need to > drive > > various discussions and brainstorming with everyone and make some > proposals > > so that we all agree to the directions we wish to go towards and so that > we > > can start implementing it in 6.1. > > > > * Denis is going to continue working on Script signing as way to replace > > the existing Programming Rights which has shown its limitations. Denis > has > > committed a new Crypto API in 5.x which is a strong base for the script > > signing implementation. > > > > In addition, during those discussions some raised a list of JIRA they > > consider important and that would be interesting to tackle if we get the > > time: > > > > - Support 2 roles for users for app within minutes: application creator > > and data creator - XWIKI-8757 > > - xwiki.cfg & xwiki.properties merging > > - Add default column and sort choices in AppWithinMinutes livetable > > setting - XWIKI-9659 > > - Save & view a section should go to the section anchor instead of the > top > > of the document - XE-1335 > > - Add a message for the Livetable's empty state - XWIKI-7821 > > - "Space Templates" should also create the space preferences page - > > XWIKI-9712 > > - The Wiki UIExtensions should check the rights before executing > extension > > points - XWIKI-9156 > > - Add an explanation next to the fields in user profile - XWIKI-6307 > > - When creating a new sub-wiki, pages are listed with guest - XWIKI-9888 > > - Cannot remove all panels using the Panel Wizard for space preferences - > > XWIKI-9891 > > > > Please comment if anyone sees a concern or if I have forgotten something! > > > > XWiki 5.4.1 > > ========= > > > > In addition we identified the need for a 5.4.1 release to: > > - finish important issues for the 5.x cycle and any leftover from 5.4. > Our > > idea is to have usable and stable implementation for the bug items we > > worked on in 5.x: SOLR search, multiwiki integration, EM/DW and scalable > > export (scalable import has been pushed to 6.0 since we considered it too > > dangerous to plug by default in the default import UI in 5.x). > > - implement support for IE11 (there are only a few issues open). Marius > > agreed to work on the IE11 fixes. The reason we wish to implement this > > support is because we're seeing more and more users reporting issues and > > asking for this support. ATM we support IE till IE9 only. IE10&11 are > > currently not officially supported at > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy It > > would be nice that after 5.4.1 we could edit this doc and mark them > > supported! > > > > Dates > > ===== > > > > I'm proposing the date of 17 of Feb for the final release of 5.4.1, > > assuming 5.4 is released on the 3rd of Feb as currently planned (i.e. 2 > > weeks after the release of 5.4). > > > > For 6.0: > > - 5.0M1: 10th of March 2014 (ie 3 weeks) > > - 5.0M2: 31st of March 2014 (ie 3 weeks) > > - 5.0RC1: 14th of April 2014 (ie 2 weeks) > > - 5.0Final: 28th of April 2014 (ie 2 weeks) > > > > TOTAL: 10 weeks, ie 2.5 months. > > > > WDYT? > > > > Thanks > > -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
