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

On 10/06/2009 04:08 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: +1, I think that this kind of organization also matches the normal discovery / exploration path. It happens often enough that an extra functionality on top of xwiki requires application, plugin/module/component and why not a bit of skin. It would be easier, for who would want to find out more about such an application, to go to a single place (contribution/washingdishesapp) and discover all sources in one place, without having to know from the beginning that it's a plugin and then some pages (most of the times when you're interested in an application, this is not the first thing you find out), hopefully it would be able to find that out by looking at the sources and digging further. baseline is that it would make it easier to learn for contributors and more natural, even if for us, the experts, another organization might seem better. For the record, I consider this annoying on code.xwiki.org, the fact that if you want to add extra functionality on top of xwiki, you have to go to several different categories of code to finally find how to add it -- it should be all in a single place, with instructions about how to make it happen.

Thanks, Anca > >> >> Jerome. >> >> Jerome Velociter wrote: >>> 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.