Roadmap for October 2024

Hi everyone,

Proposed roadmap:

XWiki Standard 16.9.0

  • WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • Security issues - Pierre
  • UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Realtime - Marius + Dorian
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
      • Loading... The autosave triggers a merge conflict sometimes even if there’s no save done outside the realtime session
      • Loading... Drag & Drop doesn’t successfully create links if the actions are performed in the same time by users
      • Loading... Enable realtime editing for the WYSIWYG editor by default
      • Loading... Sometimes when the automatically Saved is done the Menu bar disappears
      • Loading... Re-joining a Realtime editing session discards unsaved changes
  • Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
      • Loading... - Only show the red bell for security issues if an action can be done
      • Loading... - Activate the Security Vulnerabilities feature by default
        • If there are no other issues needed for it, apart from Loading...
  • Javax → Jakarta migration - Thomas
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
      • Loading... - Upgrade to Servlet 5.0
        • Note: includes moving to Jetty 12 (to have Servlet 5 support)
  • Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Consistency of message boxes - Lucas
  • Required Rights - Michael
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
      • Loading... - Introduce the notion of required rights (if there is time, planned for 16.8.0)
      • Loading... - Increase the XAR format version to 1.6 for required rights support
  • Specific bugs & improvements:

Contrib & Others

  • Cristal contrib extension 0.11 - Manuel + Thiago
    • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
      • Pierre:
        • Page History UI (page revisions) UI design? architecture design to do. Loading...
        • Delete UI - Loading...
      • Manuel
    • New
      • Manuel
        • Design the authentication API for Cristal + implementation for the XWiki backend Loading...
      • Marius
      • Thiago
        • UI Design for Page History - Loading...
        • Fix current CSS issues on the Nav Panel and other developed features - Loading...
  • Change Request - Simon
  • XWiki.org upgrade - 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

  • 16.9.0RC1: 21st of October 2024
  • 16.9.0 : 28th of October 2024

Thanks

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