Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Make XWiki Rendering a top level project

Hi devs, I'd like to make the XWiki Rendering module a top level project.

Rationale ======== * Make it more visible in order to get more outside visibility/contributions (it'll have its own wiki and can be advertised separately from the rest, see below) * Ensure that we keep the rendering module independent from xwiki's core model * Prepare it for a potential (no plans yet) future step which would be to either merge it with some other projects (such as Eclipse's WikiText) or move it to a forge with more visibility should we want that * Allow releasing it separately from the rest of XWiki with minimal dependencies which means it would be possible to use an oldish version of XE with the latest rendering module, allowing to provide features on an older platform. * Allows better controlling backward compatibility * Allows better and cleaner documentation (since it would be on a wiki of its own) * This module has grown large and has a life of its own now that warrants being a top level project The only cons I can see is that it means one more module to release separately and thus a little bit more time during the release process but I don't think that's a good enough reason to not do it (compared to the listed advantages above). Implementation details ================== * Name: XWiki Rendering (I hesitated giving it a code name such a XWiki Babel but in the end I think using a descriptive name is more inline with other names we have and clearer for the end users - it also allows us to not change existing package names this not breaking backward compatibility)

* SVN: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/rendering * JIRA: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XRENDERING * Wiki: http://rendering.xwiki.org * Package: org.xwiki.rendering * Versioning strategy: Start at 3.0-SNAPSHOT and release XWiki Rendering 3.0 final just before we release XE 3.0 final. Then let it have its own life: 3.1, 3.2, etc, independently of platform/XE (although in practice it can be released at the same time as we release platform) * Directory structure:

http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/rendering/ |_ tags |_ branches |_ trunk |_ xwiki-rendering-api |_ xwiki-rendering-macros |_ (move here all macros that don't depend on XWiki's model - it's ok to depend on XWiki's WikiModel's interface though) |_ xwiki-rendering-standalone |_ xwiki-rendering-syntaxes |_ (all syntaxes submodules moved here) |_ xwiki-rendering-tests |_ xwiki-rendering-transformations |_ (all transformation submodules) * We leave in platform/xwiki-rendering/* the macros that depend on XWiki's model + the xwiki-rendering-xwiki module. * In the future, the idea will be to separate xwiki-rendering-api into several parts (rendering-block, rendering-renderers, etc) but that's a second step. I'm on holidays right now (for a week) but that's something I'd be keep on implementing on and off during this week should we agree on it. Here's my +1