History: Cleanup 2023

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

Retiring the past

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

    
    

Each version, we review proposals: Endangered features

SVN

https://tiki.org/article493-Subversion-updates-for-all-Tiki-versions-ending-January-2023

Tiki 18 LTS

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

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

How Git changed our process

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.