Hi devs, 

When you start working on 6.x, don’t forget to update 
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/WebHome which contains too much of 
red ATM ;)

Thanks
-Vincent

On 6 Feb 2014 at 11:55:33, [email protected] 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> And here’s the roadmap page updated:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/WebHome
>  
> When the committers who wish to work on the listed feature start their work, 
> please edit that page to add the specific list of jira issue you’d like to 
> implement in 6.0!
>  
> Thanks
> -Vincent  
>  
> On 28 Jan 2014 at 11:17:29, [email protected] 
> ([email protected](mailto:[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
> >
> >
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