2020-32 - WET-BOEW 5 year high level plan

This is a draft and it is published for reference only. Any date bellow are at medium risk to change.

This represent the view of the project lead, Pierre Dubois as the date of the publication. Any date bellow might change depending on how the wet-boew project will progress and growth during the coming months and years.

Proposal for a WxT (WET-BOEW) definition

Open source web framework for the publication of accessible, usable, interoperable and interactive web content by author and developer while following strict web accessibility standard (EN 301 549 (2018) including WCAG 2.1 Level AA), World Wide Web (W3C) standard, international standard (IETF, ECMA, ISO), industries best practice, expertise and usability research.

5 year plan

As January 9, 2020

Quick history

Pre-2016

The wet-boew project has been transferred from Treasury Board - Web Renewal to Service Canada - Principal Publisher. Project community contribution has slowed down.

Pre-2018

The project was externally perceived as a going stale project. Although, the project was still receiving patches and some new feature was successfully added to GCWeb. Some work was initiated to better classification of Github issue and more regular meeting was organized to review community contribution.

WET 5 overview

I am leading the development of WET 5 to enable the creation of a single page application that would be able to interact with multiple and different API services. WET 5 are going to leverage a data first design approach. Its data core are going to follow the W3C RDF 1.1 related standard. I am expecting with new WET 5 be able to create web content that would meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA but to also be able to produce, consume and interact with 5 star linked data (https://5stardata.info/en/ ).

GCWeb (Canada.ca reference implementation)

2020 - 2021

2021 - 2022

2024

Documentation Roadmap

2018 - Today

2020 - 2022

2021 - 2023

Governance

2018 - Today

2020 - 2022

2021 - 2025+

Product - WET 4 (Current)

2020 - 2022

2021 - 2022

2022 - 2023

2024

Product - WET 5 (In development)

Summer 2020

2021

2021 - 2022

2023 - 2025

2025+

Product - WET next (Near future)

2024 - 2025+

Community

2018 - Today

2021 - 2025+

Outreach

2020

2021

2022 - 2025+