Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > > > Vincent Massol wrote: > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> I'd like to propose a stabilisation operation starting now and for 1 > >> month (ie from now to the 1st of November) > >> > >> The idea would be that **no new feature** is allowed to be committed > >> in SVN. > > > > I don't quite agree with this. Yes, we should concentrate on > > stabilizing > > existing code, but let's not block innovation. > > The point is to act as a team. We would all prefer to work on > innovation but: > 1) it's not quite fair that some of us do while others are fixing bugs > 2) we really have a huge backlogs of known bugs and small needed > improvements and we need a way to reduce them for 2.0.1 > > That said, this is only a proposal and everyone is free to work on > whatever he wants so yes I agree with your remark too. There's no hard > forbidding, it's just a recommendation that is there purely to try to > stabilize what we have, as a team. > I agree with Vincent here: - We've added a huge number of features in our last 4 releases so I don't really think that putting new features on hold for one month means that we would be blocking innovation on XWiki - We've got plenty of bugs that make our new features less usable than they should and fixing them matters a lot to get to a finished state (for instance I was affected by http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XSCOLIBRI-50this morning while trying to set a colorTheme for a private wiki) > Also, is a new feature that participates to the stabilization > > allowed or > > not? Like, the create color theme wizard from the incubator is a new > > feature, compared to the current trunk, but it is a key element of the > > Colibri skin. > > Whatever has to go in 2.0.1 is ok. > > In this case I'd say it's ok since I think we'd want this in 2.0.1 > since what we have now is a bit too basic. > The color theme creator can be viewed as an improvement to the ColorTheme application more than a new feature per se. I understand Vincent's general point as "increase the quality of the stuff that is already there" and I think the improved ColorTheme space homepage fits in this category. > >> We have several domains to stabilize quickly after the 2.0 release: > >> - Colibri skin > >> - WYSIWYG editor > >> - Rendering > >> - XAR 2.0 > >> - conversion to 2.0 syntax. > >> - internationalization texts > >> - Various (office importer page shouldn't be displayed when the > >> office > >> server is not running, wiki macro textarea should be larger, etc) > I'll send an email about XE 2.1 later this afternoon. Guillaume > >> These should go in both the trunk (2.1) and for 2.0.x > > > > If there would be no new features, why have two branches? > > The choice of 2 branches precedes this proposal. In addition this > proposal to stabilize is not forever. It's limited in time. > > We already have changes in trunk so it's going to be a bit difficult > maybe to remove the branch. If you have some idea to make it less > painful they are very welcome (even using git is an idea but someone > would need to setup a git svn mirror ad provide some explanations ;)). > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > >> I also propose to release a 2.0.1 in 2 weeks time (i.e. for the 12th > >> of October) and to continue 2.0.x release every 2 weeks till we reach > >> that month's end. > >> > >> WDYT? > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
