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<h2 class="top-subheader">Thu 04 December 2025</h2>
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<a href="/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/12/04/who-is-using-kiwi-tcms-in-2025/">Who is using Kiwi TCMS in 2025</a>
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<h2 class="top-subheader">Thu 30 October 2025</h2>
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<a href="/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/10/30/kiwi-tcms-enterprise-1511-mt/">Kiwi TCMS Enterprise 15.1.1-mt</a>

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<a href="/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2018/01/22/kiwi-tcms-roadmap-for-2018/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Kiwi TCMS roadmap for 2018">
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<h1 class="top-header">Kiwi TCMS roadmap for 2018</h1>
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<p class="post-meta">Posted by
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<a href="/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/">Kiwi TCMS Team</a>
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on Mon 22 January 2018
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<p>Hello everyone. As you know Kiwi TCMS has been around for a while and it has
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gone through some big changes in the last year! It started as an abandoned
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Django 1.6 project with broken test suite and is now currently running on the
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latest Django 2.0.1 with Python 3.5! It is clearly a legacy code base!</p>
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<p>We, the Kiwi TCMS team, have learned a lot more about the project and this
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blog post describes our roadmap for 2018 in terms of technical work and community
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engagement. The general technical direction is cleaner/simpler code,
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improved UI/UX and more tests!</p>
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<h2>Make code easier to maintain</h2>
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<p>The current code is a bunch of very large modules and functions and classes
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bundled together. It is also old and sometimes looks like spaghetti code.
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<a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/kiwitcms/Kiwi">CodeClimate</a> gives us a "D" rating
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for maintainability with a 1 year estimated effort to fix that. There are 600+
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code smells and 600+ duplications detected by CodeClimate. Our goal is to get this
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number down to zero!</p>
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<h2>Use pylint and pylint-django</h2>
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<p>pylint is the standard static analyzer for Python and currently it reports over
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4000 errors and warnings when executed against Kiwi TCMS. This is a huge number and
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it needs to become zero! We've also identified interesting patterns that will
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make it into pylint and pylint-django plugins!</p>
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<h2>Render HTML, return JSON</h2>
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<p>The current state of affairs is a mix and match of everything. There are views that
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render HTML, others which return pure JSON, other which return HTML encoded as JSON string
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and probably everything in between. Views that render pages need to do just that
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and views that are used with AJAX calls from the UI need to return pure JSON!
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A lot of these are hiding in plain sight and will come to light when we start
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overhauling the user interface.</p>
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<h2>Submit forms, post JSON, GET clean URLs</h2>
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<p>There are lots of forms in Kiwi TCMS. Sometimes they are submitted by the user and
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other times they are serialized and POSTed by some JavaScript code. This isn't
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very easy to understand plus this entire home-grown utility code doesn't bring
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anything useful to the project. All of these need to be identified and cleaned up.
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JavaScript code needs to send or consume JSON, nothing else!</p>
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<p>There are also lots of places where Kiwi issues GET requests with a number of
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query parameters. Our goal is to minimize these and where possible have the
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parameters as part of the Django urls scheme, not as query strings.</p>
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<h2>API layer</h2>
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<p>The current API module is a bit disorganized. API namespaces don't match the
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names of the underlying DB models and the API client classes don't match any
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of the other two! The way we pass parameters and what these parameters are
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named should match between the client, the RPC method and the underlying model!</p>
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<p>In earlier releases we've removed duplicate or similar RPC methods and we
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think there are more of these that need our love.</p>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<p>We've started producing documentation from doc-strings and most of the RPC
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methods have such. However it is unformatted and barely readable, sometimes
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even inaccurate. Previous releases made progress on this but there's a lot
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more to cover.</p>
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<p>All RPC methods should be documented first and then the rest of Kiwi's
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internals to make development easier!</p>
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<h2>No vendored JavaScript libraries</h2>
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<p>There are 11 vendored-in JavaScript files that we carry around in Kiwi TCMS.
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our goal is to use jQuery provided by Django or installed via NPM dependencies!</p>
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<h2>Less HTML templates with better organization</h2>
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<p>There are over 100 HTML templates in Kiwi TCMS. There are also email and even
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JavaScript templates. For example there are <code>get_cases.html</code> and <code>get_review_cases.html</code>
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which are essentially the same. This is kind of also true for templates used in
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new and edit views! Such templates should be unified!</p>
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<p>Those JavaScript templates need to be totally gone!</p>
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<p>All templates are stuffed together in a single directory and their names
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are not very predictable. They need to be split per application and follow
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some kind of naming convention.</p>
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<h2>Modern interface with Patternfly</h2>
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<p>The UI already uses the Patternfly library for some of its widgets. Most notably
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the main navigation header. Our goal is for the entire UI to be ported to Patternfly
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by updating widgets HTML and CSS where needed.
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This will also help clean things up a lot. At the same time we'll be rethinking how
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information is organized on screen and how the person interacts with it! Usability
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suggestions are very welcome!</p>
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<p>This move will also help us get rid of the Handlebars dependency which is now
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used for pop-up dialogs.</p>
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<h2>JavaScript updates and front-end testing</h2>
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<p>There's lots of JavaScript code on the front-end and honestly we don't quite know
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what it does or how it is organized. There are also no tests on the front-end
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whatsoever!</p>
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part and keep things very minimal. At the moment we're thinking about vanilla jQuery
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this name, there was 1 active contributor and hardly any users! Now the community
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junior team members (more on this in another blog post) and also seeing
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folks installing and using Kiwi TCMS and reporting interesting bugs and feature
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requests around it!</p>
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<p>For the upcoming year our goal is to seek active engagement with other open source
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projects that could make use of Kiwi TCMS and work with them. Kudos to
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<p>Every other contribution in terms of bug reports, new users and feature requests
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is of course welcome but we're very conscious of the fact that there's tons
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of work to be done and the team is still very small!</p>
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<p>Hello testers,
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<p>Subscribers have the ability to access extra
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<p><strong>What is changing:</strong> hub.kiwitcms.eu account username will no longer be based on email address,
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Discovering your credentials is explained on the page above.</p>
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<p>New accounts have been created automatically for those eligible!
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an account on <a href="https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org">https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org</a> using the same email address
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if they do not exist and a random password would be assigned to them. Customers will
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<a href="https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org/accounts/passwordreset/">https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org/accounts/passwordreset/</a>! The account username
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<p>Happy Testing!</p>
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<p>If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities
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<li><a href="https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/stargazers">Give ⭐ on GitHub</a>;</li>
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<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/334558">Give 👍 on GitLab</a>;</li>
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<li><a href="https://kiwitcms.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=9b57a21155a3b7c655ae8f922&amp;id=c970a37581">Join our newsletter</a>
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and follow all project news;</li>
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<li><a href="https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribution.html">Become a contributor</a> and an awesome open source hacker;</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="https://kiwitcms.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=9b57a21155a3b7c655ae8f922&amp;id=c970a37581">Join our newsletter</a>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribution.html">Become a contributor</a>
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