XWiki Roadmap Archives for the 15.x Release Cycle
Version 8.4 by Lavinia Vitel on 2023/09/25
XWiki 15.x Cycle
XWiki 15.8
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius (BFD with help from Manuel)
- PDF export bug fixes - Marius
- Notifications improvements - Simon
- UI proposals on the forum to finish - Adina
- Send forum proposals for all of the 12 topics
- Push devs to answer and conclude on each proposal
- For the agreed proposals, prepare some HTML/JS/CSS
- What's New: Improved UI - Adina (with help from Vincent)
- Implement the HTML/JS/CSS
- UI support for news item images:
- Outstanding improvements/bugs for the security vulnerabilities in XS - Manuel
- Compiled XDOM - Thomas
New work:
- New Security issues - Michael
- Realtime bugfixes - Dorian (with help from Marius)
- Navigation tree improvements - Marius
- Implement Skin improvements - Manuel
- Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
- Restrict script right to wiki level
- Bug fix - Need to find assignee!
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- Recommend/stabilize the URL Normalizer - Thomas
- Admin UI to enable/disable the feature. TODO: list jira
- Proposal to merge the extension in platform
- Replication - Thomas
- Attachment update replication bug.
- Change Request - Simon
New work:
- Change Request - Simon:
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs
Dates
- 15.8 RC1: 18th of September 2023
- 15.8 Final: 25th of September 2023
XWiki 15.7
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius (BFD with help from Manuel)
- Finish PDF export issues (Nice to have (BFD)) - Marius
- Quick Actions - Dorian + Marius
- PDF export bug fixes - Marius
- Notifications improvements - Simon
New work:
- New Security issues - Michael
- UI proposals on the forum to finish - Adina
- Send forum proposals for all of the 12 topics
- Push devs to answer and conclude on each proposal
- For the agreed proposals, prepare some HTML/JS/CSS
- What's New: Improved UI - Adina (with help from Vincent)
- Implement the HTML/JS/CSS
- UI support for news item images:
- Realtime bugfixes - Dorian (with help from Marius and if time permits):
- New WCAG issues - Lucas
- Outstanding improvements/bugs for the security vulnerabilities in XS - Manuel
- TODO: list some jiras
- Navigation tree improvements (if time permits) - Marius
- TODO: list jiras
- Compiled XDOM - Thomas
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- Recommend/stabilize the URL Normalizer - Thomas
- Admin UI to enable/disable the feature. TODO: list jira
- Proposal to merge the extension in platform
- Change Request - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs
Dates
- 15.7 RC1:
21th23rd of August 2023 - 15.7 Final:
28th of August 2023
XWiki 15.6
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius (BFD with help from Manuel)
- Finish PDF export issues - Marius
- Various bugs - Michael
New work:
- Notifications improvements - Simon
- New Security issues - Michael
- Quick Actions - Dorian (with Marius help)
- Improve security dashboard (continued) - Manuel
- Security cache fix/improvement - Michael
- Realtime bugfixes - Dorian (with help from Marius)
- TODO: list some jiras
- To be started only after Quick Actions is fully finished
- New WCAG issues - Lucas
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- Recommend/stabilize the URL Normalizer - Thomas
- Admin UI to enable/disable the feature
- Proposal to merge the extension in platform
New work:
- Change Request - Simon
- Upgrade of Weblate - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs
Dates
- 15.6 RC1: 24th of July 2023 (4 weeks)
- 15.6 Final: 31st of July 2023 (1 week)
XWiki 15.5
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas
- Various issues - Marius
Marius: "No reply / comments / progress on the 3 regressions I discovered on the selectize.js side so we're blocked ATM. We have to postpone the upgrade until they fix the issues. Or switch to a different library.". Drop it or replace it with "Find a replacement for selectize.js" but that's not an easy task
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius
- Quick actions - Design and start scaffolding - Marius
- Finish PDF export issues - Marius
- Nice to have (BFD)
- Improve notifications - Simon
- Email notification "per app" grouping - Simon
New work:
- New Security issues - Michael
- Common Name Approver Differentiation - Marius
- Quick Actions - Dorian + Marius
- List security issues inside XS - Manuel
- WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
- Various bugs - Michael
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- None found
New work:
- MediaWiki issues - Thomas
- CR fixes - Simon
- TODO: list jiras
- Replication fix - Simon
- TODO: list jiras
- Recommend/stabilize the URL Normalizer - Thomas
TODO: decide if we want to bunde it in XS or not.
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs
Dates
- 15.5 RC1: 19th of June 2023
- 15.5 Final: 26th of June 2023
XWiki 15.4
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas
- Various issues - Marius
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius
- Quick actions - Design and start scaffolding - Marius
- Finish PDF export issues - Marius
New work:
- New security-related work - Michael
- WCAG - Lucas
- Improve notifications - Simon
- Email notification "per app" grouping - Simon
- What's new - Vincent
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- Infra - Upgrade xwiki.org to LTS - Simon
New work:
- DokuWiki Importer improvements - Michael
- Extensible number types - Manuel
- Recommend the URL Normalizer - Thomas
- Change Request: Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
Dates
- 15.4 RC1: 22nd of May 2023
- 15.4 Final: 30th of May 2023 (note: 29th is off in France and Germany)
XWiki 15.3
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished:
- WCAG - Lucas
Report all issues found by Axe Core in the XWiki build on jira and start fixing some.
- Various issues - Marius
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius
New work:
- Each dev takes several (from 3 to 5) security issues from:
- Open blockers (5 issues as of today
- Goal: close the 5 remaining security issues in 15.3 timeframe ideally (note that two of them are listed in the outstanding issues part already).
- Michael:
- Caption overflow improvement - Manuel
- Quick actions - Design and start scaffolding - Marius
- Finish PDF export issues - Marius
- Nice to have (BFD)
- WCAG - Lucas
- Allow choosing the authenticator at runtime - Thomas
- Email notification "per app" grouping - Simon
- TODO: add jira issue here
- Restart design discussions and start API implementation
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- Infra - Upgrade xwiki.org to LTS - Simon
New work:
- Change Request - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
Dates
- 15.3 RC1: 17th of April 2023
- 15.3 Final: 24th of April 2023
XWiki 15.2
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished in 15.0:
- UI for the "What's new" feature in XS - Vincent
- WCAG - Lucas
- Various issues - Marius
- PDF Export issues - Marius
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius
New work:
- Each dev takes several (from 3 to 5) security issues from:
- Open blockers (12 issues as of today
- Goal: close the 12 remaining security issues in 15.2 ideally.
- Michael:
- Thomas:
- Manuel:
- WCAG - Lucas
And also report all issues found by Axe Core in the XWiki build on jira and start fixing some
- Bugs:
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- CR - Display diff contextual information with comments - Simon
- CR bugs - Simon
And Alignment of the CR activity feed.
- CR - Improve cluster support - Simon
New work:
- Change request - Simon
And UX improvement in file change tab.
- Infra - Upgrade xwiki.org to LTS - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
Dates
- 15.2 RC1:
20th21th of March 2023 - 15.2 Final: 27th of March 2023
XWiki 15.1
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished in 15.0:
- Marius
- Thomas
- Simon
- Include "What's new" feature in XS (see gitlab as an example about how to implement it) - Vincent
Specifically:
- Implement the UI part which is currently missing
- Implement the Admin UI to turn it off
- Bug fix: Aspect ratio not working when width/height does not respect the image ratio - Manuel
- WCAG issues to fix - Lucas
New work:
- Each dev takes several (from 3 to 5) security issues from:
- Goal: close 15 security issues in 15.1 minimum
- Michael:
- Manuel (best effort once the pdf export outstanding issues are fixed):
- WCAG improvements - Lucas
- As time permits, during BFDs - Marius
Note:
- XWIKI-20483 is the priority 1 during BFDs (except if there are other blocker issues arising in the mean time)
- PDF Export outstanding issues
- Bug fix CKEditor - Marius
Contrib & Others
Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
- CR - Display diff contextual information with comments - Simon
- Change Request bugs - Simon
- TODO: list bug jiras here
New work:
- Change request - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix blocker/critical/major open bugs.
Dates
- 15.1 RC1:
20th21st of February 2023 - 15.1 Final: 27th of February 2023
XWiki 15.0
XWiki Standard
Outstanding from past roadmaps:
- Security issues not finished in 14.10.1 and 14.10.2:
New work:
- Security issues:
- Goal: close 15 security issues minimum
- Michael:
- Simon:
- Manuel:
- Marius:
- Thomas:
- Add a "What's new" feature in XWiki (see gitlab as an example about how to implement it) - Vincent
- Define requirements on design.xwiki.org
- Bug fix - Manuel
- WCAG improvements - Lucas
- Find a tool to check WCAG status for XWiki and make it part of XWiki's build
- Fix some issues from https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%20wcag%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20
- Blocker bug "No error message in case of file uploads in comment without proper rights" - Marius
- As time permits, during BFDs - Marius
- Priority for XWIKI-20483
Contrib & Others
New work:
- CR - Display diff contextual information with comments - Simon
- Change Request bugs - Simon
- Investigate issues with using attachment selector in change request edition
- Investigate possible server error in case of conflict
- Work on https://l10n.xwiki.org - Simon
Other:
- All: BFDs on Thursdays
- All: Fix flickers
- All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the blocker/critical list of open bugs.
Dates
- 15.0 RC1: 23rd of January 2023
- 15.0 Final: 30th of January 2023
