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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!

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.0.1. This is a bugfix release triggered by an important bug (the merge was not taking into account syntax and hidden document fields).

See the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.0. This is the first version of the new development cycle 5. This release comes with virtual mode enabled and uses the new security authorization module for rights checking. It also brings improvements to the Extension Manager, Distribution Wizard and the WYSIWYG editor.

See the release notes for more information.

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #19. 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 4 participants (with a guest star!) and we managed to close 13 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 36 bugs, which we'll squash in the next BFDs. We also have defined a master plan for removing over 100 bugs at once but shhh.... it's a secret plan...  More on that later on!

Congrats everyone!

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #18. 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 and we managed to close 18 bugs! 

We have now more bugs closed than bugs created over the past 2 years!

Congrats everyone, and let's finish what we started during the next BFD!

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 5.0 RC 1. This release introduces stabilization and bug fixes and 2 important improvements:

• Distribution Wizard improvements to support multiwiki use cases
• Ability to see which extensions have updates in the Admin UI

See the release notes for more information.

On April 18th We had our Bug Fixing Day #17. 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 6 participants and we managed to close 12 bug issues! 

It was a good Bug Fixing Day but there is still work to do to beat bugs created over the past 2 years.

Congrats everyone, and let's finish what we started during the next BFD!

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #16. 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.

Unfortunately only 3 persons have participated this time  A big thank you to them as they've been able to close 8 bugs amongst which 6 real ones were fixed!  Let's make sure that you're all available for the next BFD next Thursday.

We've closed 8 bugs in the bug count! We're now at 1738 bugs closed vs 1755 bugs opened (i.e. -17 bugs) in the past rolling 2 years count.

Let's try to catch up during BFD # 17.

XWiki has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We work with many open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together nearly 6,000 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. 

This is our 8th year participating in the program and we are pretty excited about it. We value the participation in the program since it allows us to meet and discuss ideas with smart students from around the world. The past years brought great results, such as the WebDAV and RESTful remote access APIs, the Office importer, and the whole XEclipse project, just to name a few.

This year we're proposing a lot of interesting projects, from Live Notifications to XCLAMS Federated Servers, beside our regular mentors also having the support of mentors from the XCLAMS community.

The student application period will last from April 22 until May 3, 19:00 UTC. Students interested in applying for a project with XWiki should:

• read the Google Summer of Code FAQ;
• read the XWiki specific guideline;
• look at the list of suggested projects and pick one or more favorite projects, or come up with a new project idea;
• start interacting with the community on the IRC channel;
• introduce themselves and their view of the selected project on the developers mailing list;
• apply as a student on the GSoC official site.

Let's work together with the community to make this a great Summer of Code!

We are happy to say that we are investigating the notion of XWiki Flavors. XWiki Flavors are a set of predefined extensions having a specific use case in mind. 

XWiki Flavors can be considered specializations of XWiki instances suited for different purposes like public websites, intranets, content sharing, project management, community status, business intelligence, etc. 

What we would like is when you install your first wiki or when you create a new sub-wiki you should be able to select a specialization for that wiki. 

Let's say you have a farm for your organization and you would need some sub-wikis, one for your each team. Each of your teams are a bit different. For example, the support team may need to create a Documentation wiki in order to communicate with your clients. The development team may need a very applications oriented wiki that could contain applications for all their processes. 

XWiki has the advantage of being very extensible and we want to take advantage of that by separating the common use cases of XWiki in different Flavors. 

Because XWiki's development is centered around its community is important that the community decides what are the most common use cases XWiki is used for.
We've created several mailing threads for: 

• Documentation Flavor
• Groupware Flavor
• Public WebSite Flavor
• Application Development Flavor

Join the discussion on the mailing lists and help us decide the exact features needed for selected use case or brainstorm about other common use cases in this thread.