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XWiki Roadmap Archives for the 5.x Release Cycle

Version 5.1 by Vincent Massol on 2014/02/06
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This page contains the roadmap for past releases that were part of the 5.x Release Cycle. Latest roadmaps can be found on the XWiki Enterprise Roadmap page.

XWiki 5.x Cycle

Error

TODO

Copy from the roadmap page when the 5.x cycle is over

XWiki Enterprise 5.4

  • SOLR Search improvements - Owner: Marius:
  • Multiwiki improvements - Owner: GuillaumeD:
  • DM/EM improvements - Owner: Thomas + Marius:
  • Scalable import/export + Confluence import - Owner: Thomas:
  • Signed script implementation - Owner: Denis:

Here are also some JIRA issues that were raised as important (in this order of importance):

+ XWIKI-9156 which is confidential (security issue)

Proposed dates

  • 5.4M1: 6th of Jan 2014 8th of Jan 2014
  • 5.4RC1: 20th of Jan 2014 27th of Jan 2014 30th of Jan 2014
  • 5.4Final: 27th of Jan 2014 3rd of Feb 2014 5th of Feb 2014

XWiki Enterprise 5.3

  • SOLR Search improvements - Owner: Marius:
  • Continue working on the workspaces integration by default in XWiki Enterprise - Owner: GuillaumeD:
  • Finish scalable import/export (and make it the default) - Owner: ThomasM:
  • Implement Confluence import using wikistream - Owner: ThomasM:
  • Improvements on EM/DW - Owner: ThomasM + Marius:
  • Signed script implementation - Owner: Denis:
  • If time permits: AWM improvements - Owner: Marius:

Here are also some JIRA issues that were raised as important (in this order of importance):

+ XWIKI-9156 which is confidential (security issue)

Proposed dates

  • 5.3M1: 21st of October 25th of October
  • 5.3M2: 4th of November 11th of November 14th of November 19th of November
  • 5.3RC1: 18th of November 20th of November 27th of November 4th of December Started 6th of December, finished 8th of December
  • 5.3Final: 25th of November 27th of November 4th of December 10th of December Started 11th of December, finished 13th of December

XWiki Enterprise 5.2

  • SOLR Search improvements/tuning + search suggest in SOLR - Thomas + Marius
  • Have Workspace by default in XE + improved home page - Caty + Guillaume Delhumeau
  • Scalable import/export based on wiki stream - Thomas
  • Improvements on EM (introduce "always" switch in the EM conflict UI, When uninstalling a XAR extension a question should be asked for various conflict use cases, various bugs, etc) - Thomas + Marius
  • Security issues - Thomas Delafosse
  • Add UI extension point in key places - Need someone!
    Error

    TODO

    Add jiras

Here are also some JIRA issues that were raised as important (in this order of importance):

Last, here's a list of interesting investigations to do (for future implementation):

  • Activity Stream UI + Notifications Investigations - Caty + GuillaumeD
  • Easier automatic field validation (including UI for advanced user). Ajax or Not - Marius (if enough time)

Proposed dates

  • 5.2M1: 12 Aug 13 Aug
  • 5.2M2: 9 Sep 13 Sep
  • 5.2RC1: 23 Sep 27 Sep
  • 5.2Final: 30 Sep 7 Oct

XWiki Enterprise 5.1

  • Security fixes and review/apply the feature-authorization-context branch - Thomas Delafosse and Andreas
  • First usable version of SOLR implementation - Thomas Mortagne for the back end, Caty for the UI design, Marius for the UI implementation and Sorin/Manuel for ensuring the quality of the new SOLR is at least as good as our current Lucene search so that we could switch to the SOLR version ASAP (would be great to be able to do that at the end of 5.1)
  • By order of priority and time permitting:
    • Horizontal menu - Marius
    • Home Page Improvements - Marius + Caty
    • AWM: Add the ability to publish an application as an extension - Marius
    • Some specific JIRAs:

Proposed dates

  • 5.1M1: 27 May 2013 31 May 2013
  • 5.1M2: 10 June 2013 14 June 2013
  • 5.1RC1: 24 June 2013 27 June 2013
  • 5.1 final: 1st of July 9 July 2013

XWiki Enterprise 5.0

Targeted features/Improvements/Bugs

  • Continue SOLR implementation
  • EM upgrade of subwikis in farm mode + flavor concept (add Flavor type in EM/Repository)  + leftover from 4.x for EM/DW:
  • AppWithinMinutes work, ordered by priority:
  • Scalable import/export
  • Home page improvements (XE) and usability improvements in general
    Error

    TODO

    JV to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

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  • Horizontal Menu management (add, remove pages)
    Error

    TODO

    JV to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

    Failed to execute the [velocity] macro. Cause: [The execution of the [velocity] script macro is not allowed in [xwiki:Roadmaps.Archives.Archives5xCycle]. Check the rights of its last author or the parameters if it's rendered from another script.]. Click on this message for details.

  • virtual=1 by default
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Various important bugs to fix (ordered by priority - top is first priority):

Investigations

  • XEM Homepage / Portal - Caty
  • Knowledge base Flavor - Caty/Ludovic
  • New Activity Stream Investigation Part 1 - JV (he's agreed to become our AS champion emoticon_smile)
  • General Flavours Investigation - Caty

Proposed dates

  • 5.0M1: 4 March 2013 6 March 2013
  • 5.0M2: 25 March 2013 3 April 2013
  • 5.0RC1: 8 April 2013 15 April 2013 21 April 2013
  • 5.0Final: 15 April 2013 22 April 2013 26 April 2013

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