Re: [xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Should we merge the 3 xwiki repos: commons, rendering & platform?

Hi devs, I’d like to start/revisit a brainstorming on the idea of merging the 3 xwiki repos: commons, rendering & platform. Pros: * Nicer to have XWiki Standard be contained in a single repo * More logical since we release the 3 at the same time with the same versions * Simpler to commit. Right now if you make changes that affect more than 1 repo we get failures in the CI + we need several jira issues ideally + developers need to rebuild locally the changes from the other repo or wait for the CI to finish building the changes (takes long). * Simpler for users to report issues. One jira project is simpler to know where to report. * Less CI jobs * Simpler for running tools like jacoco, clover, etc since they can run in a singe maven reactor. * Simpler for releases (e.g. to find the list of committers for the RN, you need to run the command only once instead of 3 times, etc) * Simpler to understand the xwiki code base and for onboarding Cons: * We need to find a solution for Maven plugins that need to be build before they’re used (XAR plugin, Package plugin, etc). One solution for those is to have them in a separate repo and using the last released version for their XWiki dependencies. Unless it now works with Maven to build plugins in the same reactor as where they’re used (need to try it).