+1 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:17 AM, [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
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