Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Retire old query plugin

On Nov 17, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> >> On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> Following the discussion on http://markmail.org/message/uck6w56gqus2mxswI >>> would like to extract the query plugin from xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore >>> and move it to retired repository. >> >> Normally it's our strategy to keep forever what's in legacy. As I >> understand it, your use case is to reduce the size of the WAR by removing 3 >> JARs brought by this plugin. Is it just a problem of size or is there some >> other reason? >> >> Now I can see 2 choices for us: >> >> * Solution 1: Keep the plugin in legacy but extract it out of >> legacy-oldcore into legacy-query-plugin and don't bundle it by default in XE >> * Solution 2: Move it to retire but create an extension entry on e.x.o. so >> that users who need it can still install it easily (IMO it doesn't have to >> be installable through the EM, keeping it as a plugin is fine) >> >> Now it would be nice to have a special release notes area in the >> Distribution Wizard where we could put some release-related information. >> For example when someone upgrade to 4.4 and if we chose to retire the >> plugin we would put something like: "The old Query plugin has been retired >> from the NN distribution you've installed and is no longer actively >> maintained. However if you're using it in some wiki pages, you can still >> install it by going to XXX.". This information could be taken from some >> README file that we provide at the root of the WAR for example. >> >> We could use this area whenever we break user-related backward >> compatibility.

Simply because nobody thought about it… AFAIR I extracted them out of oldcore though. But I didn't think about the idea of the DM message. Thanks -Vincent >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> The good things is that we will get rid of 3 jars in standard XE by doing >>> this. >>> >>> I plan to do it in 4.4M1. >>> >>> WDYT ? >>> >>> Here is my +1 >>> -- >>> Thomas Mortagne