Hi devs, Sergiu has extracted the AutoTag plugin from oldcore in its own module. That's cool. However he's also marked it @deprecated while doing so. And he's stopped bundling it in XE. This raises several question: 1) Do we consider that what the plugin does it not useful? Because if we consider it's useful we might not want to deprecate it without offering an alternative. It's not because a technology is deprecated that we should deprecate stuff using that technology. Deprecated means: don't use this, instead use that. BTW it should be our rule that when we add the @deprecated tag we also mention what to use instead. 2) If we consider it's not useful anymore. We have 2 choices: 2a) Move it in legacy modules 2b) Move it to retired/contrib My opinion: * It could be useful but I'm not sure the XWiki Dev team wants to support it. IMO it should not be deprecated since it can still be useful and there's no replacement for it. * Since I don't think the XWiki Dev Team should support it, I'd move it to xwiki-contrib/retired and publish it on e.x.o. for users who want to still use it. * Since this is breaking our new rule regarding deprecations/legacy it requires a VOTE to move it to contrib/retired. It also needs to be clearly mentioned in the Release Notes as a breakage and explain how user can add it back to their wikis. Let me know what you think and I'll send a VOTE if you agree with what I said above.

Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

Hi devs, Sergiu has extracted the AutoTag plugin from oldcore in its own module. That's cool.

However he's also marked it @deprecated while doing so. And he's stopped bundling it in XE.

This raises several question: 1) Do we consider that what the plugin does it not useful? Because if we consider it's useful we might not want to deprecate it without offering an alternative. It's not because a technology is deprecated that we should deprecate stuff using that technology. Deprecated means: don't use this, instead use that. BTW it should be our rule that when we add the @deprecated tag we also mention what to use instead. 2) If we consider it's not useful anymore. We have 2 choices: 2a) Move it in legacy modules

2b) Move it to retired/contrib

My opinion: * It could be useful but I'm not sure the XWiki Dev team wants to support it. IMO it should not be deprecated since it can still be useful and there's no replacement for it. * Since I don't think the XWiki Dev Team should support it, I'd move it to xwiki-contrib/retired and publish it on e.x.o. for users who want to still use it. * Since this is breaking our new rule regarding deprecations/legacy it requires a VOTE to move it to contrib/retired. It also needs to be clearly mentioned in the Release Notes as a breakage and explain how user can add it back to their wikis. Let me know what you think and I'll send a VOTE if you agree with what I said above. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs