Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Change our Maven POM Names and Description for Extension Manager

Hi devs, Now that we're starting to use the Extension Manager (EM) we need to be careful about the Description and Names we use in our pom.xml since they're used by the EM to display information to the user. They're also used by the XR application to import extensions located in maven repository into extensions.xwiki.org (EXO). Right now our names are of the type shown here: https://gist.github.com/2311321 For example: [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Parent POM ............ SUCCESS [0.004s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - API ................... SUCCESS [2.066s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Handler - Parent POM .. SUCCESS [0.017s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Handler - JAR ......... SUCCESS [0.133s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - Parent POM SUCCESS [0.004s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - Aether ... SUCCESS [0.132s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki .... SUCCESS [0.006s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki model SUCCESS [0.188s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki api SUCCESS [0.010s] [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki handler SUCCESS [0.024s] These names are not nice names for users. Actually they're more IDs than names. And having the users see those in our livetable on EXO isn't nice for example. Nor is it nice if they see them in the EM UI. I thus propose that we change the way we use names in our pom.xml to use English-readable names, without any "XWiki" prefix. For example, for the example show above we could have: Extensions Extension API Extension Handlers JAR Extension Handler Extension Repositories Aether Extension Repository XWiki Extension Repository XWiki Extension Repository Model XWiki Extension Repository API XWiki Extension Repository Handler The alternative is to introduce a custom property in our pom.xm that would be used by the EM and XR but that's not a good solution because it means even more maintenance work.

While not using technical id as names in our pom.xml is not as nice when displayed in the Maven Reactor I feel it's still the best solution we have.

Here's my +1 Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs