Roadmap

Version 41.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/07/10

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 version 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, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager.

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 5.x Cycle

  • Theme: Speed and Simplicity

Mission: Improve XWiki's usage for new and regular users by improving Usability and Usage Speed in order to make XWiki simpler and faster both from a pure performance point of view and from are user interface point of view.

Technical details:

  • Individual Feature Improvement from a Usability perspective including speed of access (real time updates, commenting in activity stream)
  • General Usability Improvements on XE and XEM for simplicity
  • Technical Rewrite of certain features (activity stream) for performance or architecture reasons
  • General Performance Improvement of XWiki (page loading, rendering time)
  • Bug Fixing in general

Release dates for the 5.x Cycle:

  • 5.0: April May 2013 accept
  • 5.1: June July 2013 accept
  • 5.2: September 2013 cancel
  • 5.3: November 2013 cancel
  • 5.4: December 2014 cancel
  • 5.5: January 2014 cancel

XWiki Enterprise 5.1

  • Security fixes and review/apply the feature-authorization-context branch - Thomas Delafosse and Andreas
  • First usable version of SOLR implementation - Thomas Mortagne for the back end, Caty for the UI design, Marius for the UI implementation and Sorin/Manuel for ensuring the quality of the new SOLR is at least as good as our current Lucene search so that we could switch to the SOLR version ASAP (would be great to be able to do that at the end of 5.1)
  • By order of priority and time permitting:
    • Horizontal menu - Marius
    • Home Page Improvements - Marius + Caty
    • AWM: Add the ability to publish an application as an extension - Marius
    • Some specific JIRAs:

Proposed dates

  • 5.1M1: 27 May 2013 31 May 2013
  • 5.1M2: 10 June 2013 14 June 2013
  • 5.1RC1: 24 June 2013 27 June 2013
  • 5.1 final: 1st of July 9 July 2013
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