[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Declare dodo as deprecated

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Sergiu and everyone,

Regarding 3 we have already voted to move skins in a skin directory  
in svn. I'd be +1 to not distribute the dodo skin anymore with the  
xwiki distribution but as a download on the Code Zone (we'll only  
distribute the albatross skin). The finch skin would also be released  
on the code zone only.

Re the deprecation, I think we should simply state on the Code Zone  
(on the page for the skin) that we recommend to use the albatross  
skin and that this dodo skin is the old skin and is deprecated, etc.

Only issue in all this is that we need to make a XAR for the skin, as  
part of the build part, as I proposed some time ago. We said we had  
to check if the skin loading mechanism was still working for that.

For now, I think we should keep the 3 skins as part of the 1.0  
release as we don't have much time to work on all this and we have  
lots of bugs to fix. We can already recommend to use the albatross  
skin on the skins page on xwiki.org.

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is getting harder to maintain 3 different skins. We should  
> decide now whether (or for how long) we keep upgrading the 'dodo'  
> skin. I know it is still widely used on the farm, so completely  
> removing it is not a valid option.
>
> Here are some possibilities regarding the 'dodo' skin:
>
> 1. Keep things as they are now, with casual upgrades in the skin,  
> and all the resources available.
> 2. Declare it as deprecated, we no longer provide improvements to  
> the skin, just fixes when changes in the core cause malfunctions in  
> the skin. We keep the resources in the main AppRes.properties. It  
> will still be part of the trunk and the official builds.
> 3. Declare it as deprecated as above, but move it out of the trunk,  
> in a 'skins' svn directory, along with the associated resources  
> (afterwards we clean up all the resource files). It will still be  
> deployed on the farm, but we encourage all the users to upgrade to  
> the new skin.
>
> I think that on the long run, number 3 is the better option,  
> especially if we expect major changes in the way skins work (UI  
> extensions, wizards, improved resources).
>
> Sergiu
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