An overview of the XWiki open source project and its development process. Presented at OSCamp, 08 May, 2016 (https://oscamp.eu/)

1. XWiki's Development Process
Eduard Moraru
2016

2. About XWiki
●
Web platform on top of
the wiki paradigm
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Structured data, scripting,
applications
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Java platform, polyglot
applications (JSR223)
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XWiki Enterprise – the
product
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LGPL license, since 2004
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www.xwiki.org

3. XWiki Features
● Modular and highly extensible
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Version control, attachments, user and rights
management, subwiki and subpages,
comments, wiki syntax and WYSIWYG editor,
macros, notifications, skins, search,
import/export, apps, etc.
● Use cases:
● Knowledge sharing and collaboration
● Intranets, knowledge base, public websites,
groupware, education, etc.

4. XWiki Enterprise

5. Community
● Users, Contributors and Core committers
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Core and Contrib
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Meritocracy
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Governed by committers
● New committers voted based on contribution
● Lazy consensus
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Important changes go through voting
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+1, +/-0, -1
● Core committers have veto (-1) rights

6. Roadmap and Releases
● Timeboxing vs Feature-driven
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Open roadmap for each minor release
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1 major release per year
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Minor releases (2.5 months)
● Dev releases (1-3 weeks)
● Bugfix releases
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Support 3 versions (Dev, Stable & LTS)
● Release Manager Roster (taking turns)
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Release Process on xwiki.org

7. Process: Community

8. Process: Mails

9. Process: Chat

10. Process: Issues

11. Process: Code

12. Process: Continuous Integration

13. Process: Quality

14. Process: Builds

15. Process: Product

16. Process: Websites

17. Process – Recap
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Communication: Mailing Lists + IRC
● Issue Tracking: Jira
● Source Code Management: GitHub
● Continuous Integration: Jenkins
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Build Repository: Nexus
● Documentation: (*.)xwiki.org
● Localization: l10n.xwiki.org
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Extensions Repo: extensions.xwiki.org
● Code Quality: SonarQube

18. Dev Tools
● Source Control: Git
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IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ
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Build Management: Maven 3
● Quality Control:
● Code style: Checkstyle
● Testing: JUnit/Mockito, Jacoco, Selenium 2
● Backwards compatibility: Revapi

19. Dev Principles
● High focus on quality
● dev.xwiki.org dedicated to dev documentation and
best practices
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Enforcing coding style and min. test coverage
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XWiki special days (Bug Fixing Days, etc.)
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High focus on backwards compatibility
● Deprecation strategy
● Legacy modules

20. Statistics (1/2)
● 19 active committers
● 194 code contributors
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60K commits
●
950K lines of code (Java)
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67K mails
● 1K current subscribers
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27.5K issues
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(13% open; 53% bugs)

21. Statistics (2/2)
● 305 product releases
● (1 release every 15 days)
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2.3M downloads
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2200+ active instances
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870+ extensions
● (200+ applications)
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37 supported languages
● 9/12 years @ Google Summer of Code

22. Ways to Contribute
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Pull Requests
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github.com/xwiki
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github.com/xwiki-contrib
● Translations
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l10n.xwiki.org
● Documentation
●
xwiki.org
● New extensions
●
extensions.xwiki.org

23. Earning a living
● Multiple companies build their businesses on
top of XWiki
● XWiki.com is the main company sponsoring the
development of the project (since 2004)
● Professional Support
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Consulting & Training
● Custom Development & Solutions
●
Hosting
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Sustainable alternative to proprietary

24. Questions?

25. Thank you!
Eduard Moraru
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