5 May
2014
5 May
'14
5:56 p.m.
+1, looks good.
2014-05-05 17:03 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>om>:
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, vincent(a)massol.net
<vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
Hi devs,
Right now we have 2 organizations related to the XWiki project on
Github: xwiki
and xwiki-contribs.
The separation is currently the following:
* XWiki Committers maintain the code in the “xwiki” organization
* non XWiki Committers (aka contributors) maintain the code in the
“xwiki-contrib” organization in the way they want (some extensions there
are not maintained, others are maintained)
After brainstorming with Thomas Mortagne we’d like to propose the
following
changes:
Need
=====
* Be able to extract some maintained apps from xwiki-contrib to separate
them from
less maintained extensions. For example the top apps listed here:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CollaborativeApplications
* Be able to extract some extensions currently
located in xwiki-platform
but not released with XE so that they can have a
different release cycle
(examples: FAQ app, IRCBot extension, JIRA macro, etc). Having different
release cycle allow to release new versions quicker to our users (bug
fixes, new features).
Note that it also allows synchronizing extensions strongly tieds to
external services (e.g. Google analytics) or some other project (e.g.
ruby macro and JRuby) on those strong dependencies releases instead of
XWiki core releases.
Proposal
=======
* Introduce a new xwiki-extensions organization in GitHub which would be
maintained by the XWiki Dev Team (aka XWiki Committers)
* For now, move out of xwiki/xwiki-platform all modules that are not
bundled by
default in XE. This rule will be reviewed and modified when we
introduce the flavors concept in the future. The idea is that
xwiki-platform will contain “core extensions” only and as we progress
towards extensions, the number of core extensions will get smaller and
smaller till possibly only the EM and what it requires. Everything else
would be located in the xwiki-extensions organization
* Have one repository per extensions in the xwiki-extensions github
organization
so that each extension can be released independently of each
other
* In order to make it simple to release, the idea would be to have
Roadmaps and
aggregated Release Notes per Flavor (this is what we’re doing
now with the “XE” flavor BTW).
* We will be able to vote in committers for specific repos located in
the
xwiki-extensions organization without having them voted for the xwiki
organization (although, over time, they would be able to become xwiki
committers for the xwiki orgnization should they wish and if they’re voted
in)
* Extensions from xwiki-extensions published on e.x.o would have “XWiki
Development Team” as author, which means they will be officially supported
by the xwiki committers.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent & Thomas
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