9 Oct
2013
9 Oct
'13
7:48 p.m.
On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <jeremie.bousquet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I'm willing to help, as much as my bandwith allows :)
Great!
See below
Le 9 oct. 2013 16:29, "Vincent Massol"
<vincent(a)massol.net> a écrit :
I can create the repo and if you can populate it then all the better :)
You can ask the original author (always better) but if you don't change the license
and the license allows it you don't really need to ask.
Hi developers/contributors,
We have quite a lot of applications on http://extensions.xwiki.org
However several haven't been updated for a very long time even though
XWiki
has made progress.
I can think of 3 areas where help would be appreciated:
* Some apps have wiki pages in XWiki Syntax 1.0 version. Those need to be
upgraded
to XWiki Syntax 2.1.
* Some apps don't register themselves in the
Applications Panel. To
change that just need to create a new page with the proper
XObject. You can
copy the Blog.ApplicationsPanelEntry page to this app's space and edit it.
* Some apps don't automatically register
translations and force the user
to manually add documentation resource bundle in
the Administration.
There's now a better way which is to add an object of type
XWiki.TranslationDocumentClass
Example of app that would need an update:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Polls+Application
So who's willing to help? :)
Note that the best strategy is to ensure that the application has a git
repo on
https://github.com/organizations/xwiki-contrib (there should be a
Source button on the app page on extensions.xwiki.org too). If not, then
let me know by answering this email and I'll create it for you and give you
access so that you can make changes there. FYI the full process is
documented at http://contrib.xwiki.org and I can help you with that.
To be clear, does that mean that you take care of creating the repo AND
populating it with original sources, or that we should do it ?
Shouldn't this be done by or with authorization from the original extension
author ? I would add that ideally extensions should be
published to a maven repo (so
others can depend on them), but maybe that's too much for the cleaning
activity you propose... (and could be considered in a second step for a set
of extensions)
Sure
Thanks
-Vincent