Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Terminology for xwiki.org

Hi devs, Now that we’ve voted on the "XWiki Core” concept and that we’ve agreed that the xwiki organization on github should focused on offering core extensions only (and the rest should be moved to contrib) we need to ensure that we use the same terminology everywhere. I’d like to start updating xwiki.org(http://xwiki.org) accordingly but first I want to be sure we agree on the terminology: * The "XWiki Runtime”: the XWiki WAR that you get from the various distributions that you can find on xwiki.org(http://xwiki.org). It’s a minimalistic runtime on top of which you can install Extensions. Documentation for it will be available at http://platform.xwiki.org. * “XWiki Core”: Represents the set of XWiki APIs/sources making up the "XWiki Platform”. The sources are available in github in the xwiki-commons, xwiki-rendering and xwiki-platform repositories. More globally can be meant to represent all the sources found in the xwiki github organization. * “XWiki Contrib”: Extensions to the "XWiki Runtime”. Located under the xwiki-contrib organization in github. * The "XWiki Core Development Team” or “XWiki Core Team” (previously called "XWiki Development Team"): the list of committers of the “xwiki" github organization. * “XWiki Platform”: synonymous for “XWiki Core”. Since “XWiki Platform” could also represent the xwiki-platform github repository, it’s better to use “XWiki Core” when wanting to name the full content of the xwiki github organization. For example: “The XWiki Core Development Team works on XWiki Core”… * “Flavor”: a set of Extensions (usually with a purpose) that can be installed all together in a XWiki Runtime or when creating a subwiki inside the XWiki Runtime. * The “Default Flavor”: the unique flavor provided by the “XWiki Core Development Team”. Contrib projects and more generally anyone else can contribute other flavors on extensions.xwiki.org(http://extensions.xwiki.org). These flavors will appear in the XWiki Platform when you first run it or when you create a new subwiki. The Default Flavor is going to replace “XWiki Enterprise” (and enterprise.xwiki.org(http://enterprise.xwiki.org) will be removed and folded into platform.xwiki.org(http://platform.xwiki.org) - the same will happen for xwiki-enterprise which will be folded into xwiki-platform in github) * “XWiki Committers” or “XWiki Team". Vague terms that represent the full set of committers of both the xwiki and xwiki-contrib github organizations. * “XWiki N.P”. Shortcut for the “XWiki Runtime” version N.P (e.g. “XWiki 7.4.1”). * The “XWiki Project”. Generic term that includes the work done by XWiki Contrib Committers, XWiki Core Committers and by extensions the work done by the full community of contributors to both xwiki and xwiki-contrib github organizations. Do you agree with this? Any other terms that we should define?

Once agreed I’ll kickstart the work by updating xwiki.org(http://xwiki.org) pages by creating a Terminology page and update some existing pages. However it’ll be up to everyone to follow the terminology. Thanks -Vincent