How the XWiki open source project develops its software

1. XWiki
Developing the XWiki software
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September 2011

2. Agenda
• Project Health
• Governance Practices
• Coding Practices
• Release Practices
• Testing Practices
• Next Steps
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3. Project Health
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4. JIRA Issues
Almost 4
issues per
day!
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5. Commits
19 commits per day in average!
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6. Committers
43 committers over past 12 months
15 active, 11 from XWiki SAS
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7. Misc. Stats
Downloads > 10000/month
Mailing Lists Activity ~500 msg/month
42 in 2011 (one every 9
Releases
days!)
LOC ~2M (source: Ohloh)
More stats http://nemo.sonarsouce.org
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8. Governance
• Committership and Voting
• Vote vs Proposals, lazy committing
• XWiki.org vs XWiki SAS
• xwiki.org governance and advertising
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9. Coding
• GitHub
• Maven and Jenkins
• > 100 maven projects
• CLIRR, Checkstyle, Enforcer
• Continuous code reviews
• Common code style
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10. Releases
• Roadmap Process
• Short releases (every 3-4 weeks)
• Release Manager
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11. Testing
• JUnit/JMock
• Selenium 2 for UI tests
• Test stability/Flickering issues
• Rolling Build Manager
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12. Next Steps
• Commons & Rendering on Maven Central
• Continue stabilizing functional tests
• Write GitHub bridge for commit emails
• More tech marketing needed
• Book, articles
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13. Q&A
Me
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14. Vincent Massol
vincent@xwiki.com
skype: vmassol
http://massol.net
http://xwiki.org
http://xwiki.com
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