[xwiki-devs] XWiki extension repository

Hi devs, I'm going to start working on a XWiki extension repository. The idea is to provide a repository of extension like you can do with maven repository but with a lot more possibilities like commenting on extensions, grades, statistic, direct search... The (work in progress) reference design page is http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManagerXWikiRepository. the general idea is to have the following modules: - server (jar): basically a collection of rest resources allowing to manipulate extensions - server UI (xar): allow to administrate the repository itself - client (jar): extension manager repository handler for XWiki repository which communicate with server module using REST the plan is to provide for 3.1 a first version with at least the following characteristics: * server side ** extension are in wiki pages (even extension themself as attachments, it's not the design long term goal it's simply the quickest for 3.1) ** REST interface will provide what extension manager already support in maven repositories plus: *** search extensions (probably just simple search for now) ** UI will have a livetable of extension and not much more ** will try to integrate it to extension.xwiki.org * client side ** extension manager API will be added with search capabilities ** add a search filed in the existing extension manager admin UI ** the XWiki repository handler module of course Thanks -- Thomas Mortagne