[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Create a xlet repository for contributed apps/macros/plugins/etc.

Hi all, The subject has been discussed already, see for example http://markmail.org/message/h5e2qinrhsf2slww The idea is to create a new top level project for modules (modules in the sense of everything applications, macros, components, plugins, skin extensions, etc.) that are not part of any products (or the platform) and that are not necessarily contributed by the XWiki development team. The difference with the sandbox is that sandbox is a place for modules being incubated, and that are not in a finished state. Thus, I think one of the rule for introducing new modules in the xlet repository would be that a functional version of the module should be released and available for download (for example on code.xwiki.org). The name "xlet" is the name we've use historically to talk about this repository, this is open for discussion. (personally I like the name - we have to agree this is how we want to name a XWiki "pluggable module" in the large sense). Here is my +1 for the above I would also like to propose that we create a new category of JIRA projects : "XWiki Contributed Xlets" (or equivalent name) for such projects that desire to track issues for their released module, and have the tracker hosted by XWiki.org. I believe this will make easier to have real release cycles for such modules (for example, we can link to the JIRA project from the code.xwiki.org "module" page so that users can report issues instead of using the comments, we can use JIRAs changelog for release notes on the download page, etc.) And my +1 for this second proposal Please, let me know what you think Jerome.