On 04/04/2011 04:04 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
After brainstorming with Thomas, Sergiu and Fabio we came to the following idea:
Proposal
=======
* Don't have top level extension git repositories and instead put all
extensions/modules in the top level platform repository
* This means releasing all modules/extensions under the *same* version (the platform
version)
^^^^^^^^
This is the important part!
Pros
====
* Much simpler release process
* Much simpler JIRA organization (1 project instead of 50 or so)
* Much simpler for the user: simpler to log a new issue in jira + they'll know what
version of a module they're using vs having to guess that XE 3.0 uses the Lucene
plugin v 1.45) and for contributors
Directory org
==========
platform/
|_ modules/
|_ xwiki-platform-search/
|_ xwiki-platform-search-lucene/
|_ xwiki-platform-search-application/
|_ xwiki-platform-url/
|_ xwiki-platform-skin-colibri/
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/
|_ ...
|_ tools/
|_ distribution/
Details:
* Modules contains a flat list of directories, each directory representing a
"feature". Everything corresponding to a feature is under that feature's
directory, independently of the underlying technologies used (be it plugins, components,
xar, etc)
* Maven modules previously located in platform/web are
moved in platform/modules. Except platform/web/standard which goes in
platform/distribution. wysiwyg modules go in xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/ (we need to decide if
gwt-dom and gwt-user modules go in there too or if we want to have a xwiki-platform-gwt
module - Marius?)
If we consider the GWT API a feature then we could have:
|_ xwiki-platform-gwt
|_ xwiki-platform-gwt-api
|_ xwiki-platform-gwt-dom
|_ xwiki-platform-gwt-user
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-client
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-plugin-api
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-server
|_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-war
But since:
* the current platform/web/gwt module is not used any more in the
standard XE distribution, and, as a consequence, it isn't maintained
* xwiki-gwt-dom and xwiki-gwt-user modules are used only by the WYSIWYG
editor
* GWT is not popular among web devs, i.e. I doubt we'll use GWT for
something else other than the WYSIWYG editor
keeping the gwt-dom and gwt-user modules inside the WYSIWYG editor
(feature) module also makes sense.
Migration details
=============
* Change the current org in git
* Move several jira projects to retired
* Modify platform jira project to have one jira component per feature (ie per
platform/modules module). Note that since the old xwiki-core contains lots of stuff I
propose to have one jira components for each "feature" it contains. For example
for anything related to the model it would go in the "model" jira component. For
things going in the user management it would go in a "user and group" component,
etc. I'll make a proposal for the full list of jira components later on if this vote
is passed.
* Future: decide if we keep
extensions.xwiki.org and if so what we put in there (maybe
just user extensions and move platform features in
platform.xwiki.org).
Here's my +1 (meaning I'll help perform this move)
+0
Thanks,
Marius
Thanks
-Vincent
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