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.

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #15. 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.

Only 4 persons have participated this time but they've compensated by being extra active!  Kudos to them and shame on others!

We've closed 35 bugs in the bug count! This gets us very close to being able to have more bugs closed than bugs created over the past 2 years! As of now, we just need to fix 15 more which we hope to squash in the next BFD.

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 Milestone 2. This release introduces some important changes like the new security module by default, XWiki is now always in virtual mode, JQuery is embedded by default, xwiki/1.0 syntax is now disabled and lots of other improvements.

See the release notes for more information.

On 28th or March we had our Bug Fixing Day #14. 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.

5 persons have participated to the BFD#14, with the following results:

We've closed 8 bugs.

Was a pretty small BFD because the 5.0M2 release was late and http://ci.xwiki.org in a very bad state. We are still on track for the target challenge: increase the timespan to 2 years!

Congrats everyone and keep up the good work!

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 4.5.3. This is a bugfix release.

See the release notes for more information.