Helsinki Release - Work in Progress

Helsinki, Finland

Introduction

Helsinki Release is the code name for the TWiki Release 5.0, TWikiRelease05x00. This release will supersede the GeorgetownRelease (TWikiRelease04x03). The CodeName of the release after Helsinki release has not been set yet.

Release Focus

The TWikiMission specifies the overall purpose of the project.

The release focus is per our roadmap

below is an include from TWikiRoadMap

• Usability:
  • Seamless, quick, extensible WYSIWYG
  • Manage TML code via "sectional edit" widgets
  • Point and click permissions
  • Flow of manipulating content: File upload, more screen,... Drag and drop file attachments
  • Copy existing page to make new page
  • Clean up diff's presentation of page history
• Performance & scalability:
  • Fast structured queries
  • Fast text search including attachment content
  • SQL Storage back-end that scales to gazillions of pages with compatibility and audit trail
  • Address high traffic bottlenecks by e.g. implementing caching
  • Topic Object Model
  • Archive Data
• Application platform:
  • Easy ways to build & exchange applications & component
• Internationalization:
  • Full UTF-8 Support (including WikiWords),both LR and RL.
• Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) Features:
  • Ad-hoc creation of communities, invite to community, join/leave a community
  • ESN specific search
  • Definition of standard ESN fields and their relation to LDAP
• Mashups:
  • Easy ways to mash up different data sources & applications (XML/SOAP/JSON/OpenSocial toolkit)
  • Tight Integration with other related applications, such as Sharepoint, Google Search Appliance, SalesForce , Bugzilla, Nagios
• Skins:
  • Stable template baseline for skins
  • Easily customizable skin
• Administration:
  • Improved User, group and other management
  • Add site metrics, User page views, user page adds over time
  • Content converters to import content from other wiki platforms
• Documentation:
  • Reorganize and polish content of the TWiki distribution to be more accessible, not only for TWiki Administrators or developers
  • Refactor TWiki.org site navigation and presentation to be more accessible by evaluators and press/bloggers

Release Management

• Please follow our TWikiReleaseManagementProcess
• Release manager for Georgetown is SopanShewale

Georgetown Release Meetings

Meetings are held in #twiki_release IRC channel.

Features / Change Proposals

See TWikiFeatureProposals

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 30 Mar 2009

Discussion