[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] xwiki.org Governance change for paying extensions
Hi devs, I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager. * Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org. * Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default). * Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote. Please cast your votes. Here’s my +1 Thanks -Vincent
+1 Thanks, Caty On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
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+1 On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
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-- Thomas Mortagne
+1 Thanks, Marius On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
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+1 2016-07-26 14:23 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]>:
+1
Thanks, Marius
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
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-- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
+1. On 07/26/2016 07:49 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
I think 3 is a pretty high number. I'd vote for 2, although personally I'm OK with 1 as well.
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On 26 Jul 2016, at 15:39, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
+1.
On 07/26/2016 07:49 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
I think 3 is a pretty high number. I'd vote for 2, although personally I'm OK with 1 as well.
That’s a good question. Note that the more extension repos we add by default the slower the EM can be too ;) And note that it’s only to be listed by default. To explain why I put 3: XWiki SAS brings 98+% of the work done on the project and that this should be recognized and thus having the XWiki SAS extension repo by default is a way to recognize this. If we say 1 or 2 then it means a company doing 0.01% of the work of the project could get in easily at the same level as XWiki SAS. I was finding 3 to be already low TBH :) Also, if paying apps work, I think that in the future XWiki SAS may want to become a paying marketplace that other companies or developers could use to sell their extensions (the way Atlassian does it for example). XWiki SAS would then take some small cut of the reselling price in exchange for hosting/managing the repo + for its work in the product (being the Top Sponsoring Company). Initially I wanted to say TSC (ie only 1 company) for being listed by default in the repo list but I thought we could be more lenient and this is why I’m proposing 3. Thanks -Vincent
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
-- Sergiu Dumitriu
Results: 6 +1, no 0 no -1 The vote is passed. Thanks everyone -Vincent
On 26 Jul 2016, at 13:49, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
Hi devs,
On 26 Jul 2016, at 13:49, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
On this last point, and FYI, there’s now a first paying app advertised on ext, see at http://extensions.xwiki.org/ Thanks -Vincent
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
On 9 Jan 2017, at 15:14, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
On 26 Jul 2016, at 13:49, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager.
* Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that on xwiki.org.
* Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is only about having some repos by default).
* Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
On this last point, and FYI, there’s now a first paying app advertised on ext, see at http://extensions.xwiki.org/
s/ext/exo (apple autocorrection ;)). Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
Please cast your votes.
Here’s my +1
Thanks -Vincent
participants (6)
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Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) -
Guillaume Delhumeau -
Marius Dumitru Florea -
Sergiu Dumitriu -
Thomas Mortagne -
Vincent Massol