Roadmap

Version 249.3 by Vincent Massol on 2016/09/26

The XWiki development process uses JIRA for listing all tasks to be implemented and all bugs to be fixed.

You'll find there the dates and versions planned for issues to be fixed and hence the XWiki roadmaps. There's also a release calendar listing all known dates for future releases. Please understand that these dates are often tentative since XWiki's development is open source and lots of committers/contributors are working in their free time on XWiki.

If you're interested to help out check the contributing page.

We're releasing several top level projects together and as such we've decided to have the same Roadmap page for all of them. Thus this page contains the roadmap for the following projects: XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise.

General goals for all releases:

  • More tests
  • Better javadoc
  • More documentation on xwiki.org
  • Code cleanup/refactoring

Already implemented roadmaps can be found in the archives.

Note that all planned release dates are also entered in the Calendar on JIRA.

XWiki Enterprise 8.x Cycle

Release dates for the 8.x Cycle:

  • 8.0: March 2016 accept
  • 8.1: May 2016 accept
  • 8.2: July 2016 accept
  • 8.3: September 2016
  • 8.4: November 2016

XWiki 8.3

Priority 1:

  • l10n support for nested pages - Assignee: Thomas
  • Fix performance issue in Document Tree + fix "Add support for sorting the pages by their title in the document tree" at the same time - Assignee: Marius
  • Complete Templates (set of sample templates (partially done already) + templates in each App and in AWM) in XE - Assignee: Caty
  • Curation of extensions.xwiki.org - Assignee: Vincent

Priority 2:

  • Curated extensions feature in EM (curated extensions listed + ability to see others if explicitly asked) - Assignee: Thomas
  • Fix various existing NS issues (example: office macro on NP) + continue improving tools. Includes as priority "Viewing a PPT / ODP with the Office Macro fails when on a nested page” - Assignee: Marius
  • Demo content extension for XE - Assignee: Caty
  • Playground flavor - Assignee: Vincent
  • Fix various existing NS issues (example: office macro on NP) + continue improving tools - Assignee: Guillaume
  • Demo content extension for XE - Assignee: Alex
  • Complete Templates (set of sample templates (partially done already) + templates in each App and in AWM) in XE - Assignee: Edy

Priority 3:

  • Fix various existing NS issues (example: office macro on NP) + continue improving tools - Assignee: Thomas
  • Bring back XCS flavors in XE (involves dropping XE and replacing it with a KB flavor and start using the platform distribution instead of XE) - Assignee: Marius
  • Curated extensions feature in EM (curated extensions listed + ability to see others if explicitly asked) - Assignee: Caty
  • Continue Confluence + MediaWiki comparison pages + present XWiki as the best Confluence alternative - Assignee: Vincent
  • Fix various existing NS issues (example: office macro on NP) + continue improving tools - Assignee: Alex
  • Fix various existing NS issues (example: office macro on NP) + continue improving tools - Assignee: Edy

Priority 4:

  • Paying + Trial feature in EM (see that an app is paying + has a trial and show it) - Assignee: Thomas
  • Mouseflow + Inspectlet analysis for xwiki.org - Assignee: Caty
  • Improvement to activeinstalls to capture some more information (email hash for unicity, country, number of users) - Assignee: Vincent

Priority 5: 

  • Task for Usability (investigation) - Assignee: Caty

Top JIRA issues to fix (in this order of importance):

Dates

  • 8.3M1: 22 August 2016 24 August 2016 accept
  • 8.3M2: 12 Sep 2016 13 Sep 2016 accept
  • 8.3RC1: 26 Sep 2016 accept
  • 8.3Final: 10 Oct 2016

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