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

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

+1

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
>
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