[VOTE] Include Foxwiki project in our main source tree and vote Rick Kenney as committer for it

[Vincent Massol]

Let's hold on a bit... I jumped the gun a bit on this.

Rick told me he had tried to contact Robin without success but I've  
just learnt that this wasn't the case. He only left a comment on the  
shoal wiki. No wonder Robin didn't answered... :) I've just sent an  
email to Robin asking him for his opinion on the email below.

Thanks
-Vincent

On Jul 26, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Rick Kenney has fixed the Foxwiki plugin available in our sandbox  
> (it was initially created by Robin Fernandes - Site is here: http:// 
> soal.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Code/FoXWiki).
>
> Rick has tried to contact Robin without success so far. We need to  
> find out under what license it is. But assuming the license is  
> correct and Robin agrees, I'd like us to vote on including it as  
> part of our releases. This means we are agreeing to maintaining it.
>
> Rick has agreed to maintain it, so if we agree I'll vote to get him  
> write access to it so that he can be the maintainer for it.
>
> If we agree on this, I propose the following:
>
> 1) Rick creates a JIRA issue in the XWiki Platform project for now,  
> component "Other" and attach his working version to it
> 2) I create the extension area for foxwiki in our SVN and apply  
> your patch there. I had already proposed such an area which we also  
> need for the Eclipse integration.
> 3) I also create the maven build for it so that it can be built as  
> part of our CI
> 4) I create a JIRA project for it and move your issue to it
> 5) I do a release of it (version 1.0) with maven in our remote  
> maven repo
> 6) I create an extension page for it on xwiki.org (in the Code  
> Zone, Extension section) and link to the download location on our  
> remote maven repo
> 7) I create a blog post on xwiki.org to announce the new project  
> and the availability of the 1.0 version
> 8) From there on, people create JIRA issues for it in its jira  
> project and Rick acts on them. I can act as the release manager  
> whenever a new version is ready
>
> Here's my +1 for both including Foxwiki and voting Rick as  
> committer for *that* project only.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>