Hi,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> 4.4 and 4.5 are the last 2 stabilization releases for the 4.x cycle. As
> such they are meant to be short releases (1 month per release) and the idea
> is to have:
> - 4.4: December
> - 4.5: January
>
> This will allow us to start working on 5.0 at the beginning of February.
>
> Thus for 4.4 (and 4.5) I propose to work on the following stabilizations
> (we shouldn't work on new features):
>
> * AWM stabilization. Assignee: Marius
> ** Remove the i18n hack and use the new localization module to create a
> translation bundle for the application
> ** Add new field types (for page, image and attachment at least, with
> pickers)
> ** Improve the title and content fields (e.g. prevent dragging more than
> one title or content field)
>
> * Extension Manager. Specifically we still need to able to install/upgrade
> a wiki farm in a few minutes. Assignee: Thomas/Marius
> ** XWIKI-8252: Migration from an older version will cause many merge
> conflicts with the Distribution Manager
> ** XWIKI-8443: When uninstalling a XAR extension a question should be
> asked for various conflict use cases
> ** Find a way to allow having each wiki admin doing upgrade instead of
> upgrading the whole farm by a farm admin which don't always know how to fix
> conflict like in myxwiki.org for example
> ** XWIKI-8173 (EM should not allow installing package exposing an
> installed feature)
>
> * Translation module stabilizations/improvements. Assignee: Thomas
> ** XWIKI-8263 (Allow providing translations in a jar extension).
>
> * SOLR improvements: we need to continue working on it and we can decide
> in the course of 4.4/4.5 if it's good enough to be made the default search
> or if we need to wait for 5.x to make it the default. Assignee: Edy
>
> * Usability: small usability improvements. Assignee: Caty/JV. Caty/JV,
> could you please list what you'd like to work on?
>
> * Workspace bug fixes (there are some raised by Anca for example).
> Assignee: Edy
>
> * And a lot of bug fixes. Manuel reported a lot of browsers issue for IE
> that we need to fix
>
> Anything else committers/contributors would like to work on for 4.4?
>
> Dates
> =====
>
> 4.4M1: 17 Dec
> 4.4RC1: 31 Dec
>

Are we sure this is a realistic date? I think we should reconsider this
now, instead of (almost certainly) delaying it on the spot, and looking bad.

Thanks,
Eduard

 4.4Final: 7 January
>
> Note that I'd have normally put RC1 on 24th but since that's the Christmas
> holidays, I've given RC1 2 weeks instead.
>
> Can everyone review what I've put tentatively and tell me if it's ok? Also
> could you create the associated JIRA issues and reply to this email with
> them so that I can prepare the roadmap page on xwiki.org?
>
> Thanks a lot
> -Vincent
>
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