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Jun 14 2013
Bug Fixing Day 25
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #25. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We've set a new goal of breaking even for the past 1200 days (i.e close to 3 years!).
We managed to close 12 bugs.
At the moment of writing, we're now 8 bugs behind (we were at 27 after last BFD). Making progress...
Jun 07 2013
Bug Fixing Day 24
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #24. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We've set a new goal of breaking even for the past 1200 days (i.e close to 3 years!).
We managed to close 14 bugs. Well done everyone!
At the moment of writing, we're now 27 bugs behind (we were at 37 after last BFD). Making progress...
Jun 03 2013
XWiki 5.0.3 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.0.3. This is a bugfix release for the 5.0.x cycle. The blocking bugs that leaded to this release are a regression with right checking in old API and the New Page menu not showing up or user without admin right.
See the release notes for more information.
Jun 02 2013
Bug Fixing Day 23
Last Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #23. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We've set a new goal of breaking even for the past 1200 days (i.e closed to 3 years!).
During the last BFD, we had only 3 participants... Still they managed to close 11 bugs. Congrats to them!
At the moment of writing, we're 37 bugs behind. Getting closer...
Let's continue to reduce the gap in the next BFD.
May 31 2013
XWiki 5.1 Milestone 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.1 Milestone 1. This is the first milestone for the 5.1 release. It brings an improved Solr search UI with faceted search and a couple of bug fixes and other small improvements.
See the release notes for more information.
May 24 2013
XWiki 5.0.2 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.0.2. This is a bugfix release for the 5.0.x cycle. The blocking bugs that leaded to this release are about PostgreSQL support and new multiwiki behavior.
See the release notes for more information.
Bug Fixing Day 22
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #22. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We had 8 participants this week! That's awesome! We managed to close 24 bugs.
We've now reached our goal of closing as many bugs as there are created for the past 1000 days!
Well done everyone, we'll now set a new challenge...
May 23 2013
XWiki 4.5.4 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.5.4. This is a bugfix release for the 4.5.x cycle, hopefully the last on the 4.x cycle. Affected areas include the distribution wizard and the extension manager, Internet Explorer compatibility, Oracle and PostgreSQL compatibility, and multiwiki improvements.
See the release notes for more information.
Bug Fixing Day 21
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #21. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We had 5 participants this week and we managed to close 14 bugs.
Our goal is to reach even for the past 1000 days. We can do it!
May 10 2013
Bug Fixing Day 20
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #20. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.
We had only 2 participants this week and we managed to close 6 bugs.
Our goal is to reach even for the past 1000 days. At the end of this BFD we're now only lagging behind by 29 bugs, which we'll squash in the next BFDs.
Congrats everyone and let's do better next week!