Hi BugSquaders!

Liferay has released the sixth milestone (Milestone 6) build of the next version of Liferay. Milestone 6 has many new enhancements to existing features, plus 400+ bugfixes (and most if not all of the bugs found thus far by BugSquad have been fixed!). It has been a huge help that our other sister team, the Community Verifiers, have done an amazing job clearing out the backlog of old bugs (most of which are fixed or no longer relevant).

This is the final milestone build before we enter a new (and final) phase for 6.2, with the Beta release planned for July 2013. As we are nearing the end of the 6.2 development cycle, we are concentrating our efforts on this Milestone to those major and final changes that went in. Please check out the Milestone 6 wiki page to see the list of focus areas for Milestone 6, and convenient links for downloads and other pertinent information.

Also, you may notice a new JIRA-based tool that we are using at Liferay to track product development. This tool is in the form of a handy plugin for JIRA called JIRA Structure, and allows Liferay to maintain a hierarchical visualization of related tickets (vastly more powerful than simple JIRA Subtasks). We are using this to track feature development by grouping related "Stories" into various buckets. For example, for the Milestone builds, you can see a hierarchical view of all of the Stories implemented for each Milestone (e.g. here are the Stories for Milestone 6). These tickets don't represent anything other than grouping of cross-project tickets (e.g. a structure could contain tickets from the LPS project and the MAVEN project in JIRA). Going forward, this will hopefully give even greater visibility to the inner workings of Liferay's community software development process.

So, check out the Milestone 6 wiki page and get started!