XWiki RC1 Releases

Wow, it’s been such a long haul of continuous progress with all the successive beta releases that reaching RC1 now is really quite fulfulling so I hope there will be no show stoppers for the 1.0 release in the next few weeks.  I was also happy to have been able to take some time to contribute over the easter weekend and although it was mainly documentation and fixing some macros or skin problems, it is quite satisfying to knock down the issues in JIRA and seeing some of your work highlighted in the release notes.  If resolving some of the other issues was not so time consuming for me I would have loved to have been able to tackle a bit more.  Thank you Vincent and the rest of the XWiki contributors and R&D team for doing such a great job !

Visiting My Father

I’m in Maumee, Ohio visiting my father this week. We had a good trip to Detroit and actually got there an hour early. We should have rented a car to go down to Maumee, but we thought we would be better off taking the plane to Toledo, which meant we ended up waiting around for four hours that night to catch the 9:30 flight in a small turbo propeller driven aircraft. We’ll be enjoying my father’s company and hospitality here until Sunday. I hope to meet Keith Instone, who graciously accepted my invitation to chat about XWiki, before leaving. More on that later…