Freetown Release - Released 2008-01-22

Freetown: Drag chain fishermen at Lumley Beach. (Photo: © 2006 Peter C. Andersen)

Introduction

Freetown Release is the code name for the TWiki Release 4.2, TWikiRelease04x02. This release supersedes the EdinburghRelease. The CodeName of the release after Freetown is GeorgetownRelease.

Releases

Release topic	Date	Stable?	Download	Rev	Type	Code Name
TWikiRelease04x02x01beta1	2008-07-27		zip, tgz	4.2.1 beta1 (r16277)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00rc2	2007-12-10		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 rc 2 (r15958)	RC	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00rc1	2007-11-26		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 rc 1 (r15793)	RC	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta3	2007-11-01		zip , tgz, Windows installer v3.1, Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 beta 3 (r15442)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta2	2007-10-02		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 beta 2 (r15127)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta1	2007-09-20		zip , tgz, Windows installer	4.2.0 (r14960)	Beta	FreetownRelease

Release Focus

The TWikiMission specifies the overall purpose of the project.

Possible areas for the Freetown Release to focus on, in order to help TWiki leap forward:

• Performance improvements based on a TWiki BenchmarkFramework
• Focus on customer centric features (e.g. features that help our target audience most)
  • Examples: Syncronous edits, OO ContentAccessSyntax
• Focus on innovation with compatibility in mind
  • Examples: Generic web services interface, a J2EE/TWiki integration, web based updates of TWiki/Plugins/apps, relational database backend, portlet integration, event triggers
• Strengthen TWiki as an application platform
  • New features and infrastructure supporting that
  • Establish an Apps web, creating a marketplace for TWiki applications (for free and for a fee)

Development Process Review

Before the TWikiCommunity dives into spec and coding work we should review the Development process, model and tools: Post4Point1BugDBImprovements.

Features / Change Proposals

See TWikiFeature04x02

Freetown Release Meetings

Meetings are held in #twiki_release IRC channel. Let's find a suitable FreetownReleaseMeetingTime.

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 08 Jan 2007

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