XWiki is a web-based platform that enhances the wiki paradigm with features like modularity, version control, and user management, aimed at knowledge sharing and collaboration across various use cases. The development community operates under a meritocracy model with structured processes for contributions, releases, and quality control, managing active engagement through multiple communication channels. XWiki is commercially supported by XWiki.com, providing professional services while fostering an open-source development environment with extensive contributor involvement.

1. XWiki's Development Process
Eduard Moraru
2016

2. About XWiki
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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
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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
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xwiki.org
● New extensions
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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
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Hosting
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Sustainable alternative to proprietary

24. Questions?

25. Thank you!
Eduard Moraru
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