This is a draft of an article which will be published on tiki.org/articles

Retiring the past / spring cleaning

Tiki recently turned 20!
https://tiki.org/article495-We-Are-Celebrating-20-Years-of-Tiki

And we recently released Tiki25, which is the most important release ever.

Most important?

• Biggest: most work into a release
• Strategic
  • Tiki-flavored Markdown

https://tiki.org/article497-Biggest-Tiki-Release-Ever-Tiki-25

Some cleanups:

Each version, we review proposals: Endangered features

Tiki 18 LTS

https://tiki.org/article492-End-of-service-life-approaching-for-Tiki-18-what-options-do-you-have
Versions is working really well

From mods to add-ons to packages

mods.tiki.org

https://tiki.org/forumthread67983-About-Tiki-Packages-in-Tiki-18-0-LTS-and-why-I-support-this-project-And-mods-tiki-org-can-now-be-scheduled-for-retirement

Development process

The server for Git and SVN combined workflow will be retired

How Git changed our process

This is our 4th version control setup (cvs -> svn- -> svn-Allura -> GitLab)
https://tiki.org/article493-Subversion-updates-for-all-Tiki-versions-ending-January-2023
Add ideas from https://gitter.im/tiki-org/community?at=63cd5bc5ec2bfc628669d65f

3 rules
Rule no x commit early and often is not the same with Git
A commit has way more content/value than a commit in the old days
https://www.openhub.net/p/tikiwiki/commits/summary

"Wiki Way to software development" has evolved.

Community chat

IRC -> WikiSuite.chat experiment -> Gitter -> Gitter/Matrix
https://irc.tiki.org/irclogger_logs/tikiwiki

Profiles

https://profiles.tiki.org/ was launched in 2009 as part of Tiki3. We never decided on a lifecycle so data has been growing for years.

Next steps:

• All profiles for unsupported versions of Tiki will be deleted. Already applied profiles are, as always, unaffected.
• We will review the remaining profiles to clean up https://profiles.tiki.org/
• We will leverage the recently created Tiki Profiles Tester
• Decide about the lifecycle of a profile. Generally, a profile works for several future versions. But when it doesn't, what is the pattern? Some examples:
  • https://profiles.tiki.org/Personal_Blog_and_Profile_21plus
  • https://profiles.tiki.org/Personal_Blog_and_Profile

Upcoming

• tiki.org mail server migration
• PHP8
• WYSIWYG and Markdown
• Bootstrap 5 (refine the integration)
  • Can we scan for unused classes?
• Manticore Search
• Security audit (which will mean backports to many Tiki versions)
• Remove info on *.tiki.org which relates to end of life versions
• Clean our backlog: https://gitlab.com/groups/tikiwiki/-/merge_requests (79 as of 2023-02-17. And way too many are beyond 4 weeks old)
• Unified Admin Backend