New subject: [xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Reorganizing JIRA projects

24 Apr 2007

Hi,

We need to organize a bit better the different JIRA projects. Right  
now there are:

- XWiki
- XWiki Applications
- XWiki Clients

We need to clean the XWiki Applications and XWiki Clients projects.  
For this we need to define a strategy for where to put xwiki plugins,  
applications, etc.

Here are some facts:
* A JIRA project has the same versions for all components. This means  
one JIRA project per release lifecycle.

And here's my proposal in term of JIRA projects:

* "XWiki":
  - We put everything here that is tied to the XWiki Core release  
(1.0 RC2, 1.1 B1, etc). Right now there are several plugins that are  
still tied to the XWiki release (all the core plugins). So they  
should go in there for now. When we'll move out the plugins later on,  
we will then move their JIRA issues.

* "XWiki Applications":
  - We remove this JIRA project

* "XWiki Default Wiki":
   - We create this new JIRA project. Corresponds to xwiki- 
applications/wikis/default.
   - We move all issues from current XWiki JIRA project that have a  
"Default Wiki" component to it.
   - We define a version scheme for it. I propose to use the same  
versions as for XWiki core for now. But in the future it'll be  
possible to release the default wiki independently of XWiki Core.
   - We create components for the various XWiki applications that we  
haven't separated from the xwiki-applications/wikis/default yet (i.e.  
all except the Panels which has been moved out)

* "XWiki Panels Application":
  - We create this JIRA project. Corresponds to xwiki-applications/ 
xarlets/panels
  - We define a version scheme for it. I propose to use the same  
versions as for XWiki core for now. But in the future it'll be  
possible to release the default wiki independently of XWiki Core.
  - We release the panels application on the forge instead of just  
releasing it as an attachment to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ 
Code/PanelsApplication. We'll continue to reference the download from  
that page but it'll point to OW's forge. We ensure it's also  
referenced from the main Download page on xwiki.org

* "XWiki Selenium Application":
  - We create this JIRA project. Corresponds to xwiki-applications/ 
xarlets/selenium
  - We define a version scheme for it. I propose to start at 0.1 as  
it's still early stuff
  - Release it as 0.1 on the forge and, as above, modify xwiki.org to  
point to it (from the code zone).

* "XWiki <plugin name> Plugin":
  - Where <plugin name> is: "Adwords", "Alexa", "Email
Notification",  
"IP Resolver", "Laszlo", "Task Manager",
"Terraserver"
  - The strategy is that once a plugin is moved out of the core to  
the xwiki-plugins/ dir, we create a JIRA project for it
  - We define a version scheme for them. I propose to start at 0.1 as  
we haven't released them yet. We shouldn't release any of them until  
we've tested it works with the latest version of XWiki Core.

* "XWiki Clients":
  - We remove this JIRA project and move all current clients to the  
sandbox. Namely they are: "foxwiki", "anyedit", "p2pxwiki",
"wiked"

Others:

* I'm not entirely sure what to do with these projects in xwiki- 
tools: build tools, package and cryptpasswords.
* I think they're too small and not well-defined enough to warrant a  
JIRA project each. I'm proposing to create a Tools component in the  
main XWiki JIRA project for now to see how they develop in the future.

WDYT?

If you're ok I'm proposing to do the reorganization work.

Thanks
-Vincent