Appendix A: TWiki Development Time-line

TWiki Release 4.2 (Freetown), 22 Jan 2008

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 4.2

• Easier Installation and Upgrade
  • New Internal Admin Login feature
  • The Main.TWikiUsers topic is no longer distributed as a default topic in Main web
  • A new directory working which per default is located in the TWiki root which contains registration_approvals, tmp, and work_areas
  • Configure can now authenticate when connecting to local plugins repository.

• Usability Enhancements
  • New WYSIWYG editor based on TinyMCE replaces the Kupu based editor
  • New "Restore topic" feature has been added to the More Topic Actions menu to easily restore an older version of a topic

• Application Platform Enhancements
  • Enhancements to IF: allows, ingroup, istopic, and isweb

• Search Enhancements
  • New query search mode supports SQL-style queries over form fields and other meta-data

• Skins and Templates Enhancements
  • The PatternSkin which is the default skin for TWiki has got a face lift
  • The default templates have been heavily refactored to make it easier to create skins reusing the default skin.

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Many new functions in the API for plugin developers
  • Table of Content (TOC) feature enhanced
  • re-architected Pluggable user mapping (between login name and WikiName) to integrate with alternative authentication and Management schemes
  • Topic based User management has been extracted into a separately update-able package (TWikiUsersContrib)

• Enhancements of Pre-installed Plugins
  • CommentPlugin: New templatetopic parameter to point to custom comment template topic
  • EditTablePlugin: Move and delete rows
  • MailerContrib: Allow Exclusion Of Webs
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: 6 new math formulas; formula to format time diff

• Bug Fixes
  • More than 300 bugs fixes since 4.1.2

Hall of Fame of TWiki Release 4.2

Many people have been involved in creating TWiki 4.2. Special thanks go to the most active contributors in the following areas:

• Release management led by TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, ably assisted by TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Design and development driven by TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, and TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Testing driven by TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen

Many thanks also to the contributors in the following areas:

• Sponsor and facilitator: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Testing and bug fixing: TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
• Spec and code: TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (2323), TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (566), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (507), TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny (83), TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen (73), TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen (72), TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro (63) - ( 3857 changes by 20 authors )
• Templates and skins: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (587), TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (130), TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich (73), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (44) - ( 869 changes by 12 authors )
• Documentation: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (460), TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (377), TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny (233), TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich (157), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (118), TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen (68) - ( 1450 changes by 14 authors )
• Release package builds: TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Usability: TWiki:Main.CarloSchulz, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens
• Translations: Coordinated by TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro
  • Bulgarian: TWiki:Main.KrassimirBerov
  • Danish: TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen
  • Dutch: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens
  • Finnish: TWiki:Main.HeikkiToivonen
  • French: TWiki:Main.BenVoui
  • German: TWiki:Main.OliverKrueger, TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich
  • Italian: TWiki:Main.MassimoMancini
  • Portuguese: TWiki:Main.CarlinhosCecconi
  • Simplified Chinese: TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Swedish: TWiki:Main.ErikAman
  • Traditional Chinese: TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Ukrainian: TWiki:Main.SerhijDubyk
• Marketing: TWiki:Main.RodBeckstrom, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.MichaelCorbett, TWiki:Main.KoenMartens
• Public relations: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.MichaelCorbett
• Meetups: TWiki:Main.AmirShobeiri
• TWiki.org wiki champions: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.CarloSchulz, TWiki:Main.StephaneLenclud, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin, TWiki:Main.KoenMartens

  <-- Blog, Codev, Main, Plugins, TWiki webs -->

• Customer support: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg

  <-- Support web -->

• System administration: TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie

If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. For the full list of contributors see TWikiContributor.

Note: Order of contributors under "Spec and code", "Templates and skins" and "Documentation" is based on number of SVN file changes for core and default extensions from March 2007 (svn rev:13046) to Jan 2008 (svn rev:16210). (Details at TWikibug:TWiki420SvnLog). Order of contributors under "Testing and bug fixing" is based on Bugs web statistics from 2007-03 to 2007-12. Order of contributors under "TWiki.org wiki champions" and "Customer support" is based on TWiki.org web statistics from 2007-02 to 2007-12.

See more details on the TWiki 4.2 release at TWikiReleaseNotes04x02.