Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XWiki Core - Second take

Hi, I have re-read the original thread and scanned the remarks done by Denis and I have to say that I kind of agree with him on some aspects (or at least with what I understood from his message since I scanned it quite quickly). Basically, I also don`t see much point/value in splitting the code into multiple repositories. IMO, we should only have the xwiki and the contrib organisations and move as much as possible from xwiki to contrib, i.e. move what you call "vertical" extensions to contrib, where everybody can easily contribute like they would to any other extension. In terms or differentiating between quality, it should just be a matter of community feedback and what the community values to be of quality or not. In other words: ratings, votes, likes, whatever. The community does not hit the code repositories first to look at where the code is located, but the other way around. A user first hits the XWiki Extensions repository (extensions.xwiki.org) or the Extension Manager UI where he is interested on searching for his needs and deciding based on ratings, community feedback, featured extensions, etc. which result is best for him. IMO, raising the administrative complexity of the community will not help us work faster/better and will not simplify the contribution process for outsiders, but rather the opposite. Additionally, there is nothing stopping us, or anybody else for the matter, from setting up additional extension repositories where only hand-picked extensions are published and where users can get certain levels of guarantees on quality, support, etc. But, like Denis say saying, this is about the artefacts, not about the sources. If we are worried about people from contrib making bad commits on high-profile contrib extensions, we can easily revert and warn the misbehaving user. On 3 strikes he's out. Personally, I find this much simpler and in line with our wishes to simplify administrative tasks (and a bit in line with what we have done for jira where we are giving users more power in handling issues). Thanks, Eduard P.S.: A reminder to whoever will be doing the moving of code from one repo to another: please! reference the source repository and the source commit ID so that when we use blaim we don`t reach a dead end. Specially if there is no jira issue to track the move, the history is lost to oblivion. (I know it is technically still there, but it's almost impossible to find) On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Gabriela Smeria <gabriela.smeria(a)xwiki.com> wrote: