Roadmap

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 version 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.

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 Enterprise 5.x Cycle

• Theme: Speed and Simplicity

Mission: Improve XWiki's usage for new and regular users by improving Usability and Usage Speed in order to make XWiki simpler and faster both from a pure performance point of view and from are user interface point of view.

Technical details:

• Individual Feature Improvement from a Usability perspective including speed of access (real time updates, commenting in activity stream)
• General Usability Improvements on XE and XEM for simplicity
• Technical Rewrite of certain features (activity stream) for performance or architecture reasons
• General Performance Improvement of XWiki (page loading, rendering time)
• Bug Fixing in general

Release dates for the 5.x Cycle:

• 5.0: April May 2013
• 5.1: June 2013
• 5.2: September 2013
• 5.3: November 2013
• 5.4: December 2014
• 5.5: January 2014

XWiki Enterprise 5.1

• Security fixes and review/apply the feature-authorization-context branch - Thomas Delafosse and Andreas
  • XWiki-7879 : Refactor to confine delegation of programming rights (only committers on the security list will be able to see this issue on JIRA)
• 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)

  Type	Key	Status	Summary	Assignee
  	XWIKI-8689		Add Solr indexing daemon thread to handle the automatic indexing of documents as they are queued for indexing.	Thomas Mortagne
  	XWIKI-9028		Solr gives up when it meets a missing (not found) attachment	Thomas Mortagne
  	XWIKI-8911		Upgrade to Apache Lucene and Solr 4.3	Thomas Mortagne
  	XWIKI-8441		Internationalize the Solr Search UI	Marius Dumitru Florea
  	XWIKI-8444		Add faceted search to the Solr Search UI	Marius Dumitru Florea
  	XWIKI-8819		Improve the performance of Solr index delete operations by using deleteByQuery instead of deleting each individual entry	Thomas Mortagne
  	XWIKI-8887		Solr doesn't provide search results for attachments on the results page	Thomas Mortagne

• By order of priority and time permitting:
  • Horizontal menu - Marius

    Type	Key	Status	Summary	Assignee
    	XWIKI-9148		Implement an extensible and reusable horizontal menu	Marius Dumitru Florea

  • Home Page Improvements - Marius + Caty

    Type	Key	Status	Summary	Assignee
    	XWIKI-7685		Improve Homepage editing and Dashboard 'included' message	Marius Dumitru Florea

  • AWM: Add the ability to publish an application as an extension - Marius

    Type	Key	Status	Summary	Assignee
    	XWIKI-7376		Add the ability to export an application	Marius Dumitru Florea
    	XWIKI-7377		Add the ability to publish an application as an extension	Marius Dumitru Florea

  • Some specific JIRAs:

    Type	Key	Status	Summary	Assignee
    	XWIKI-8495		Unable to add new content to a page in IE8 using the WYSIWYG editor after adding a macro	Unassigned
    	XWIKI-7905		Cannot change document title from "inline" mode	Unassigned

Proposed dates

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