The DNN Technology Ecosystem Advisory Group continues to meet on a weekly basis mapping out the future of DNN. The meeting agenda and minutes are shared here in blog entries so that everyone can see the progress being made and conversations occurring in the group.

This October 30rd meeting was dedicated to long term plans. We discussed about Blazor, .Net Core 3.0, Dnn 9.4 and 10 release planning, a possible new HTML editor, Workflow API, merging repositories and more

Dnn Technology Advisory Group

Long term plans Meeting Agenda

Date: October 30th 2018

Time: 3PM EST

Participants: Daniel Valadas, Brian Dukes, Oliver Hine, Matt Rutledge, Peter Donker, Mark Saunders, Robert Dima, Clint Patterson, David Poindexter, Daniel Aguilera, Tomasz Pluskiewicz, Ash Prasad, Mitchel Sellers, Mike Smeltzer, Will Strohl, Affiza Fazreen, Andrew Hoefling, Sebastian Leupold, Stefan Kamphuis, Shaun Walker

1. Review and adoption of agenda

2. Approval of minutes from last meeting

3. Finished business / Reports / Announcements

4. Unfinished business / Status updates

5. New business

   1. Server-Side Blazor to Ship in .NET Core 3.0
      We had good conversations with Microsoft. They recommend to make a long term support of what we have now, then make a clean cut to .Net Core. since ASP.NET Core 3.0 will not support full framework. Microsoft announced a roadmap for full framework and it is not going away any time soon. Any ASP.NET Core LTS will only be supported for 3 years. Users will need to be more proactive in upgrades. We need to wait and see how ASP.NET Core 3.0 will be made before taking any important re-architecture and bridge path to .Net Core

   2. Do we start working on a 9.4 or 10.0? Do we move this to long term meeting?
      9.4 > Persona Bar improvements, no hidden features without a UI to manage them. C# Async
      10.0 >.Net framework 4.7.2, Razor Pages? Blazor? Other?

   3. Review RFCs

   4. New html editor
      An RFC still needs to be created to discuss the creation of a new HTML editor

   5. Workflow API, do we move this to one of the long term plans meetings?
      Mike created an RFC https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/issues/2434

   6. GDPR (export and anonymity)
      Peter moved this item into multiple RFCs
      https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/issues/2425
      https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/issues/2435

   7. Discussion around merging Repos for developer experience
      https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/issues/2436

6. Addendum / Open Forum