On 14 Sep 2016, at 07:58, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
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We have a
pretty good definition of core already:
- All modules that make up the base distribution.
- Modules maintained and developed by the XWiki
Core Deve team (i.e. located in a repo in the XWiki organization on github)
About that, you did not answered my comment on the fact that you plan
to put "Knownledge Base" flavor (which will depends on various Contrib
extensions) in xwiki-platform.
Sorry I must have missed it. You have a markmail link to your comment so I can see the
context?
For me it’s not a major problem to have a flavor inside platform that depends on contrib
stuff. We’re already doing this with xwiki-enterprise and the KB flavor is the same as
xwiki-enterprise (moved to xwiki-platform).
Having KB in xwiki-platform is just a way to clearly show that this flavor is maintained
by the XWiki Core dev team. And to be able to maintain its quality since this is the main
flavor that people will use.
Actually I wouldn’t mind either if we wanted to move it out of the xwiki github org and
put in xwik-contrib.
Cons:
- a bit less control on its quality
- additional release work for the Release Manager. We need to at least release it at the
same time as we release new versions of the base distribution so that our users have
something they can use.
- we might need to separate the RN for the base distribution from the RN for the KB flavor
(since the KB flavor can have more releases and it would no longer be “core”).
- the xwiki github org doesn’t deliver any immediately usable distribution.
Pros:
- ability to release the KB flavor more often than the base distribution
- ability to let other member of the community contribute more easily to it
- we no longer have any contrib dependency inside the XWiki github organization
The pros are tempting :)
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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