Great! Thanks for the recap Braden! The plan sounds great!
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Braden Shepherdson <[email protected]>wrote: > Today, Brian LeRoux, Anis Kadri, Herm Wong, Steve Gill and me met up and > discussed the plans for the command-line tools and 3.0. We were joined on a > Hangout by Fil, and by Michael Brooks. > > Since it didn't happen if it didn't happen on the list, here's the summary: > > - Herm and Steve are developing a new test script for plugins, that knows > how to set up mobile spec tests for that plugin into an app. We don't > currently have a story for combining docs and tests between plugins; that > will come after 3.0. > > - There are long-lived 3.0 branches in cordova-android, -ios, and -js. > These branches are where the work to split the core into separated plugins > will occur. We will keep these branches in sync as plugins change. To that > end, we are starting with stable plugins that change infrequently, so that > the volatile plugins (FileTransfer, above all) come at the end and right > before the transition. Herm and Steve are working on this. > > - We prioritized the core plugins into rough order of converting them. > Brian has this in a file; the wiki is still down D: > > - plugman still requires dependency support. universes and discovery are > being punted to after 3.0. in the near term, it is deemed sufficient to > have a plugin.xml specify <dependency> tags that give explicitly the git > URL, commit hash, subdirectory and ID of the plugins it depends on. I will > be taking this work over the next week while Fil is away at Adobe Max. He > and I will sync up on Monday the 13th when he's back, and see where we > stand. > > - cordova-cli is ready to go, except that it has a known issue where > cordova prepare is deleting platform-specific www/ and breaking asset > handling. > > > Braden >
