21 Feb
2011
21 Feb
'11
9 a.m.
+1
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:29, Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
+1
Thanks,
Marius
On 02/19/2011 03:38 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
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Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
eGuilde sarl - CTO
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
Thanks
-Vincent
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