12 Sep
2013
12 Sep
'13
5:11 p.m.
On 09/11/2013 05:58 AM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau wrote:
Since Enterprise embeds Workspaces by default since
5.2-m2, I think it does
not make any sense to release XWiki Manager (XEM) anymore.
The build is currently broken (because of the XAR organization changes).
So I propose to remove XWiki Manager:
- stop releasing it
- move the github repo to xwiki-contrib/retired
- update manager.xwiki.org to explain the changes in XWiki 5.2.
- move the manager jira to the retired category
- remove the build in ci.xwiki.org
Here is my non-binding +1.
LM
-1. This is very premature, the new workspaces haven't been available
for a long enough time to be sure it is a good replacement for XEM.
Do workspaces fulfill all the needs of existing XEM users?
Does the new implementation offer support for the Farm usage?
Is there a clear migration path? Manual or automatic?
Is the new wiki management UI going to be at least as easy to use as the
old one? What's the learning curve for administrators?
If the build is broken, it's easier to fix it than to upset a large
userbase. Why do we insist so much on maintaining backwards
compatibility for Java APIs that we're almost certain nobody uses, yet
we're OK with dropping an entire product without a proven alternative,
hoping that in one or two more releases that alternative will actually
be fully implemented?
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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