Proposal: XWiki Maven2 migration

Hi the XWiki Team, I found in the mailing list archives that you are planning to use maven to build xwiki. I am a committer to the apache pluto project, which uses maven2. Thus i got some experience on maven 2. (Mr. Vincent Massol must be a maven master, since he is on the maven team :) I would like to help you migrate to maven. I checked out the xwiki source from subversion, and am trying to re-organize the project layout and create pom.xml files. Currently i am still dealing with the dependencies. I would like to propose to separate the xwiki project into small subprojects, and decouple the APIs from the implementation (such as user api and different implementations, plugin api and different plugin implementations, etc.). That will make the source more clear and more readable. I don't know how to help on this topic. Re-organizing the project layout introduces too many modifications on the project, which may have a lot of impacts on the current development, and it's difficult to generate svndiff and create patches. I would like to know if it is possible to apply for joining the dev team and create a new branch in svn for the maven migration. I am taking a look at the JCR spec currently, since I created a java wiki engine project ( http://people.apache.org/~zheng/elsie/<http://people.apache.org/%7Ezheng…) and am thinking of refactoring it using JCR and apache jackrabbit. I found that you are also planning to implement the xwiki repository using JCR. I would like to help and contribute to this subproject too. Best regards. -- ZHENG Zhong - http://heavyz.blogspot.com/ - http://people.apache.org/~zheng/ <http://people.apache.org/%7Ezheng/>