Hi devs,
Now that we’ve voted on the "XWiki Core” concept and that we’ve agreed that the xwiki
organization on github should focused on offering core extensions only (and the rest
should be moved to contrib) we need to ensure that we use the same terminology
everywhere.
I’d like to start updating
xwiki.org accordingly but first I want to be sure we agree on
the terminology:
* The "XWiki Runtime”: the XWiki WAR that you get from the various distributions that
you can find on
xwiki.org. It’s a minimalistic runtime on top of which you can install
Extensions. Documentation for it will be available at
http://platform.xwiki.org.
* “XWiki Core”: Represents the set of XWiki APIs/sources making up the "XWiki
Platform”. The sources are available in github in the xwiki-commons, xwiki-rendering and
xwiki-platform repositories. More globally can be meant to represent all the sources found
in the xwiki github organization.
* “XWiki Contrib”: Extensions to the "XWiki Runtime”. Located under the xwiki-contrib
organization in github.
* The "XWiki Core Development Team” or “XWiki Core Team” (previously called
"XWiki Development Team"): the list of committers of the “xwiki" github
organization.
* “XWiki Platform”: synonymous for “XWiki Core”. Since “XWiki Platform” could also
represent the xwiki-platform github repository, it’s better to use “XWiki Core” when
wanting to name the full content of the xwiki github organization. For example: “The XWiki
Core Development Team works on XWiki Core”…
* “Flavor”: a set of Extensions (usually with a purpose) that can be installed all
together in a XWiki Runtime or when creating a subwiki inside the XWiki Runtime.
* The “Default Flavor”: the unique flavor provided by the “XWiki Core Development Team”.
Contrib projects and more generally anyone else can contribute other flavors on
extensions.xwiki.org. These flavors will appear in the XWiki Platform when you first run
it or when you create a new subwiki. The Default Flavor is going to replace “XWiki
Enterprise” (and
enterprise.xwiki.org will be removed and folded into
platform.xwiki.org -
the same will happen for xwiki-enterprise which will be folded into xwiki-platform in
github)
* “XWiki Committers” or “XWiki Team". Vague terms that represent the full set of
committers of both the xwiki and xwiki-contrib github organizations.
* “XWiki N.P”. Shortcut for the “XWiki Runtime” version N.P (e.g. “XWiki 7.4.1”).
* The “XWiki Project”. Generic term that includes the work done by XWiki Contrib
Committers, XWiki Core Committers and by extensions the work done by the full community of
contributors to both xwiki and xwiki-contrib github organizations.
Do you agree with this? Any other terms that we should define?
Once agreed I’ll kickstart the work by updating
xwiki.org pages by creating a Terminology
page and update some existing pages. However it’ll be up to everyone to follow the
terminology.
Thanks
-Vincent