Nuxeo Weekly News - Issue #1

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You are reading the first issue of Nuxeo Weekly News, a newsletter that will summarize every week everything interesting that has happened in the Nuxeo open source ECM community.

Nuxeo 5.0 GA released!

The first stable version of Nuxeo 5.0, Nuxeo EP 5.0.0.GA, was released on Monday.

This was of course a major milestone for the Nuxeo 5 project, which was started last year around May.

From now on, we will have two branches: a "stable" branch (currently 5.0.x) and a "development branch" (which will be called 5.1m1 to 5.1m4, then one or several beta and rc, then 5.1.0.GA).

Nuxeo in the news

The Nuxeo 5.0.0.GA announcement made it to the top page of dzone, a social bookmarking site for software developers developed by the guys that also manage Javalobby.

Other citations:

• Gilbane report
• CMSWire
• Contentmanager
• Collaborationloop
• Glyn Normington's blog
• Freshmeat
• Javalobby
• CMSCentraal
• eContentMag
• SDA Asia
• CRM2day

SVN and build system reorg

The SVN repository was reorganized, and we have started migrating from Ant to Maven for our build system. The change is summarized in this message in the mailing list

The Nuxeo 5 Developer Quickstart Howto has been updated accordingly.

Documentation updates

Florent has recently written several small goal-oriented tutorials that he has used during recent on-site training.

Thierry has committed overview slides (in ODP and PDF format) that he has used during recent on-site training.

Solen has updated the evaluation guide (a short, screenshots-rich, tutorial for people who download the application and want to quickly get a grasp of its potential).

Conferences and presentation

Bogdan gave a presentation of Nuxeo Runtime at the Solutions Linux expo in Paris.

The slides are now online. They are in French right now, we plan to publish a translated version this week.

Maven site update, includes now Javadocs

The Maven site has been updated with the latest source.

It now includes the full Javadoc of Nuxeo EP.

Upcoming events

• The roadmap to Nuxeo 5.1 will be discussed this week, and the Jira and nuxeo.org roadmaps will be updated accordingly.
• Development on the Nuxeo RCP platform will restart this week, after an internal kickoff meeting at Nuxeo.
• The mailing list (currently called "ECM") will soon be split in a developers list and a users lists, which will be called "nuxeo-dev" and "nuxeo-users".
• The Maven site maven.nuxeo.org will be reorganised soon so as to provide information for the released versions of Nuxeo as well as for the development (= SVN trunk) version.

Nuxeo project looking for contributors

Here are some open tasks that we think may be interesting for third-party contributors:

• Port Nuxeo Runtime to other platforms than JBoss AS 4 and Eclipse RCP, including: Glassfish, JBoss 5, Geronimo, JOnAS 5, SAP Netweaver, etc.
• Fix some Maven issues (including the fact that Maven Cobertura plugin currently reports 100% coverage for all the modules, which would be very nice if only it was true ;) ).
• Write more unit tests.
• Help designing and writing functional tests (that would probably leverage the JBoss Seam testing infrastructure). See this mailing list message for the issues we are facing currently.
• Report (and, if possible, fix ;) ) bugs on the 5.0.0 release (that will be corrected in 5.0.1).

Related News

Seam 1.1.5 and Seam 1.1.6 have been released.

Nuxeo 5.0 still ships with Seam 1.1.1, out of stability concerns, but next Nuxeo release, Nuxeo 5.1, will be based on Seam 1.1.5 or Seam 1.2, depending on the Seam 1.2 availability.

Jackrabbit 1.2.1 has been released.

Nuxeo 5.0 ships with Jackrabbit 1.0.1, but next Nuxeo release, Nuxeo 5.1, will be based on Jackrabbit 1.2.1 or later.

About Nuxeo 5

Nuxeo 5 is an open source ECM platform, designed for extensibility and to make it easy to develop application in the fields of document management, collaboration, workflow,

Source code for the project is 100% public svn.nuxeo.org under the LGPL and/or EPL licenses. Main community site is www.nuxeo.org. There is a main mailing list, currently hosting both users and developers conversations: lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/ECM.

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