On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 don't understand what you mean. Because of Christmas? I already mentioned 
that I gave it one more week as we usually do because of this.

> I think we should reconsider this
> now, instead of (almost certainly) delaying it on the spot, and looking bad.

Any date is a good date. Even one week from now is good date. You just need to 
adjust what you're going to tackle during the timeframe that's all (that's 
called timeboxing).

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
> 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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