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Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #63. We managed to close 11 bugs. We are now at -101 bugs behind the 1 year period and we still have a lot of catching up to do. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2. This release is mainly focused on the Flamingo skin and it being now used by default, but also features improvements for applications such as AWM and Blog and various performance improvements. Developers can benefit from new APIs such as the new Mail Sender API and the new Blame API but also from improved APIs such as the wiki module API and JS widgets. …

I prepared with Eduard Moraru a presentation for newcomers that want to start develop on top of XWiki Platform. We presented a bit the project, the community, the development process and ways of contributing. The presentation is held live so many explanations are missing from the slides, but still you can have a clear idea of the presentation's structure. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2 Release Candidate 1. This release is a Release Candidate and, as such, it focuses on stabilization, bugfixes (35) and performance improvements. Make sure to try it out and report any problems that may affect the upcoming final release. …

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #62. Even though some of the committers were still on holidays, we managed to close 5 bugs (4 real fixes). We are now at +13 bugs over the 1600 days period and -37 bugs over the last year (365 days). We must try to get even on the 365 days as otherwise it means that we're reducing the quality of the code we recently committed! …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2 Milestone 2. This release mostly focuses on the Flaming skin and sets it as the new default skin for XWiki. A new themes application for the new skin is introduces, along with the AppBar set by default and other various UI polishes and improvements. …

Last Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #61. Even though some of the committers were still on holidays, we managed to close 11 bugs (10 real fixes). We are now at +13 bugs over the 1600 days period, so we will have to raise our target yet again! …

As part of our XWiki Days we had our second Improvement Fixing Day on the 7th of August 2014. Its goal was to close the maximum of JIRA issues of type "Improvement" by taking low-hanging fruit and taking the occasion to clean up our improvement list (duplicates, won't fix, etc).

We had 3 participants and we managed to close 14 improvements (12 real fixes). …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2 Milestone 1. This milestone adds various responsive UI improvements for the new Flamingo skin, a new structure for applications created with Application Within Minutes and the possibility to have alternative Icon Themes. Developers also get a new Mail Sender API and other API improvements. Finally, a considerable amount of bug fixes (31) and improvements (31) are provided so make sure to try it out. …

As part of our XWiki Days we had a Deprecation Fixing Day on the 10th of HJuly 2014. Its goal was to have the maximum number of XWiki committers and contributors work together to fix the maximum number of deprecation calls and moving deprecated APIs not used anymore to our Legacy modules.

We had 1 committer participating with the following results... …