+1
This will help not only new devs to Carbon, but also others as well.

Thanks,
Waruna
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On Dec 18, 2011 12:17 PM, "Thilina Buddhika" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Since we have a lot of developers(both internal and external) writing
> Carbon components and features, how about the $subject? We can create a
> Maven archetypes for Carbon components and features.
>
> Currently people are taking a copy of the existing component and modifying
> it. This has certain drawbacks.
>
> 1. People do not cleanup the pom.xml files by removing
> unnecessary dependencies, etc.
>
> 2. If there is an issue/bad practice in one component, it might
> be propagated to other new components. For example, when we cleanup pom
> files, we saw the same mistake is done over and over in some pom.xml files,
> mainly because they are copied.
>
> The idea is to give a proper starting point, so that they can start
> implementing it quickly. Also this is a way to enforce the Carbon best
> practices for a certain extent, for instance, it is possible to generate
> the configurations for Maven bundle plugin.
>
> Any suggestions or objections ?
>
> Thanks,
> Thilina
>
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> Thilina Buddhika
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> WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com
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>
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