Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Directory/Git Reorganization re platform vs extensions

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:21, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Denis Gervalle wrote: I don't agree about removing any history. It looks to me that using git means using a lot of disk space (since you get a local repo with full history), we need to live with that or not use git at all. Well, let say that I both agree and disagree. For me, the main advantage of using Git is to have more contributors that participate, since the project is easy to fork... and merge ! Moreover, reducing the number of repos, simplify also contribution, and it goes the same direction. So, I really think we should weight the consequence of having a so heavy history, that could afraid contributors. I would really prefer to left over some very old history, if this helps receiving more contributions.

Denis Thanks -Vincent > Denis > > >> And most of it comes from the very early history when we had all the >> libs in the svn. >> >> So, we could decide to drop the history before the introduction of >> maven, or we could move the core in its own repository and push for a >> faster migration to components. >> >> Or we can just learn to live with it, we have a long history and we're >> proud of it. >> >>> -Fabio >>> >>>> Pros >>>> ==== >>>> >>>> * Much simpler release process >>>> * Much simpler JIRA organization (1 project instead of 50 or so) >>>> * Much simpler for the user: simpler to log a new issue in jira + >> they'll know what version of a module they're using vs having to guess that >> XE 3.0 uses the Lucene plugin v 1.45) and for contributors >>>> >>>> Directory org >>>> ========== >>>> >>>> platform/ >>>> |_ modules/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-search/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-search-lucene/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-search-application/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-url/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-skin-colibri/ >>>> |_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/ >>>> |_ ... >>>> |_ tools/ >>>> |_ distribution/ >>>> >>>> Details: >>>> >>>> * Modules contains a flat list of directories, each directory >> representing a "feature". Everything corresponding to a feature is under >> that feature's directory, independently of the underlying technologies used >> (be it plugins, components, xar, etc) >>>> * Maven modules previously located in platform/web are moved in >> platform/modules. Except platform/web/standard which goes in >> platform/distribution. wysiwyg modules go in xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/ (we >> need to decide if gwt-dom and gwt-user modules go in there too or if we want >> to have a xwiki-platform-gwt module - Marius?) >>>> >>>> Migration details >>>> ============= >>>> >>>> * Change the current org in git >>>> * Move several jira projects to retired >>>> * Modify platform jira project to have one jira component per feature >> (ie per platform/modules module). Note that since the old xwiki-core >> contains lots of stuff I propose to have one jira components for each >> "feature" it contains. For example for anything related to the model it >> would go in the "model" jira component. For things going in the user >> management it would go in a "user and group" component, etc. I'll make a >> proposal for the full list of jira components later on if this vote is >> passed. >>>> * Future: decide if we keep extensions.xwiki.org and if so what we put >> in there (maybe just user extensions and move platform features in >> platform.xwiki.org). >>>> >>>> Here's my +1 (meaning I'll help perform this move) >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent