Hi xwikiers,
I just add clustering support which was the last big peace of
framework that was blocking a first fully functional version of
Extension Manager.
I will now dedicate my time to write tests and fix bugs and small
improvements I find and try to fix some UI bugs too if Sergiu does not
have time.
I also have some improvement work in XWiki Repository and finally make
extension.xwiki.org fully based on standard XWiki Repository and not
have custom version anymore.
During the 3.5 and 4.0 timeframe it would be nice to get as much tests
and reports as possible on what is not working or still blocker in
term or usability so that we get a nice and strong first version we
can advertise in 4.0.
There is obviously lots of possible improvements some of which you can
find on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManager
(and I need to add more things in there) but I would like to limit to
a fully working minimum for 4.0 and then do a priority survey on the
many new features and improvements ideas.
Here are the grey areas I know about and on which I'm going to
concentrate on writing tests:
* automatic xar merging is a quick implementation not excessively
tested. Also the string properties content merging is not able to
merge modification done on the same line which is not nice when things
like the title is customized in the wiki and also changed in the new
version of the xar. Right now in doubt the merge always take the new
version when there is a conflict so that nothing is lost since it's
easy to get back the previous version from the history. Also I'm not
going to have time to work on a real manual conflict resolution UI for
this timeframe, not alone at least.
* clustering is a bit young ;) Also it expect all members to have the
exact same constraints, if for any reason an extension is installed to
a member and fail on another it could create quite a mess if that's an
important extension.
* it's not very hard to add versions and dependencies in XWiki
Repository but it require using object editor which is not very nice
for all profiles of users (now it's generally done by the developer of
the extension so not a basic user either). Will try to work on that if
I have some time left.
Thanks,
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Thomas Mortagne