This presentation explains how the XWiki software is developed on all aspects: governance, build process, release process, communication tools, code quality, xwiki.org vs xwiki.com, etc.

1. Developing the XWiki software
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2. Agenda
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Project Health
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Governance Practices
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Development Flow
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Code Quality
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Testing Practices
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Roadmap & Release Practices
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Next Steps

3. Project Health

4. JIRA Issues
Reported:
100 reporters
● 3.8 issues/day
● 23% by non-commiters
● 56% bugs
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Closed:
23 assignees
● 4.25 issues/day
● 67% fixed
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Source: jira.xwiki.org

5. Commits
9.7 commits/day
Source: www.ohloh.net/p/xwiki

6. Code Contributors (last 12 months)
8 (33%) outside XWiki SAS (doing 9% of the commits)
205 pull requests created in the last 12 months

7. Translations
120 contributors, 97896 translations
Source: l10n.xwiki.org

8. Mails (last 12 months)
100+ senders, 5677 mails (users + devs), 15.5 mails/day
Source: xwiki.markmail.org/search

9. Installations
1. ^ that have ever sent us a ping (XWiki 5.2M2+)
2. ^ that have sent us a ping in the past 2 days (XWiki 5.2M2+)
Source: activeinstalls.xwiki.org

10. Practices

11. Meritocratic Governance
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Committership, voting, lazy consensus
XWiki.org vs. XWiki SAS
xwiki.org governance and advertising
Source: dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance

12. Development Flow

13. Code Quality
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Full wiki for shared practices on dev.xwiki.org
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Common code style (Checkstyle, Enforcer)
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Continuous code reviews
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Backward compatibility (CLIRR) and
deprecation strategy
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XWiki special days
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sonar.xwiki.org

14. Testing Practices
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JUnit/Mockito
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Selenium 2 (WebDriver) for UI tests
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Quality build profile (JaCoCo) and job on CI

15. Roadmap & Release Practices
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Complete Roadmap Process
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Short releases (every 3-4 weeks)
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Release Manager + Roster
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Release application on xwiki.org
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Documentation fields in JIRA

16. How to Contribute
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JIRA/mailing list/Spread
word/etc.
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Pull Requests on GitHub
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extensions.xwiki.org
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Create your project on
github.com/xwiki-contrib
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And get a JIRA, wiki and
Maven repo

17. Next Steps
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XWiki Foundation
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Bounties
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More tech marketing needed
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Book, articles, conferences
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Continue improving xwiki.org
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Find ways to get even more committers!

18. Questions?

19. About me
Marius Dumitru Florea
marius@xwiki.com
github.com/mflorea