Roadmap

Version 443.1 by Vincent Massol on 2018/09/23

The XWiki development process uses JIRA for listing all tasks to be implemented and all bugs to be fixed.

You'll find there the dates and versions planned for issues to be fixed and hence the XWiki roadmaps. There's also a release calendar listing all known dates for future releases. Please understand that these dates are often tentative since XWiki's development is open source and lots of committers/contributors are working in their free time on XWiki.

If you're interested to help out check the contributing page.

Information

We're releasing several top level projects together and as such we've decided to have the same Roadmap page for all of them. Thus this page contains the roadmap for the following projects: XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform.

General goals for all releases:

  • More tests
  • Better javadoc
  • More documentation on xwiki.org
  • Code cleanup/refactoring

Already implemented roadmaps can be found in the archives.

Note that all planned release dates are also entered in the Calendar on JIRA.

XWiki 10.x Cycle

Release dates for the 10.x Cycle:

  • 10.0: January 2018 accept
  • 10.1: February 2018 accept
  • 10.2: March 2018 accept
  • 10.3: April 2018 accept
  • 10.4: May 2018 accept
  • 10.5: June 2018 accept
  • 10.6: July 2018 accept
  • 10.7: August 2018 accept
  • 10.8: September 2018
  • 10.9: October 2018
  • 10.10: November 2018
  • 10.11: December 2018

XWiki 10.9

  • Thomas/Vincent: Improve STAMP KPIs (20%) - 1 day per week
  • All: BFD (20%)
  • Thomas: continue work on performance (started in 10.4). Goal: go back to XWiki 8.x performance! Hint: https://t.co/0ZckyVYg6c emoticon_wink
  • Simon/Marius (moved from 10.8 roadmap): Macro inline editing in WYSIWYG
  • Adel/Marius (moved from 10.8 roadmap): Auto complete of references in WYSIWYG Macro Dialog (+ grouping feature so that users don't get both "page" and "reference" at the same time + "deprecated"/"priority" to show "page" more proemintenly than "reference")
  • Simon: Page Move/Renaming: don't allow and/or warn when moving pages containing xclass definitions. Use case: prevent users from breaking AWM apps they created
  • Guillaume: Remove AS whenever it's used and replaced it with the new Notifications macro

Best effort: If we have time (otherwise candidates for 10.10+):

  • Marius/Adel/Simon: Display Reference of documents to copy paste
  • Marius/Adel/Simon: Improve the XClass picker when in object edit mode (make it like the Add Macro dialog for WYSIWYG editor)
  • Thomas: work on some items to make the upgrade experience simpler + unattended upgrades (ability to upgrade XWiki from the command line without interaction). Use the result of Caty's investigation from XWiki 10.8 period.

Dates

  • 10.9RC1: 22nd of October 2018
  • 10.9Final: 29th of October 2018

XWiki 10.8

Scope:

  • Thomas, Marius, Adel, Simon, anyone interested: Improve STAMP KPIs (20%) - 1 day per week
  • All: BFD (20%)
  • Thomas: continue work on performance (started in 10.4). Goal: go back to XWiki 8.x performance! Hint: https://t.co/0ZckyVYg6c emoticon_wink
  • Thomas: Add a new tab in the user profile to list groups the user belongs to
  • Marius: Improve the Group sheet page. When viewing a group page, be able to filter by first name, last name in addition of id (which is already implemented).
  • Guillaume: Notifications performance + bugfixes
  • Marius/Simon: For macros having wiki markup content (need new macro descriptor metadata), let the user enter it in the WYSIWYG directly. When hovering over the macro allow editing content + have some icons to edit parameters (similar to the CKEditor easy image feature: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-dev/issues/932 They call it a "balloon toolbar"). Related: Macros Options
  • Simon: Move Menus inside administration (see http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaMenuInAdministration)
  • Adel/Simon/Marius: finish applying Autocomplete on reference everywhere, see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AutocompleteOnReference#HWYIWYGMacros
  • Vincent/Thomas: Possible work on improving the LaTeX exporter (will maybe be done in October or split between Sep. and Oct.)
  • Caty: investigate how we could make the upgrade experience simpler.
  • Caty: investigation for a new XClass picker in object edit mode

Dates

  • 10.8RC1: 17th of Sep 18th of Sep accept
  • 10.8Final: 24th of Sep

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