Hi,

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The subject has been discussed already, see for example
> http://markmail.org/message/h5e2qinrhsf2slww
>
> The idea is to create a new top level project for modules (modules in
> the sense of everything applications, macros, components, plugins, skin
> extensions, etc.) that are not part of any products (or the platform)
> and that are not necessarily contributed by the XWiki development team.
>
> The difference with the sandbox is that sandbox is a place for modules
> being incubated, and that are not in a finished state. Thus, I think one
> of the rule for introducing new modules in the xlet repository would be
> that a functional version of the module should be released and available
> for download (for example on code.xwiki.org).
>
> The name "xlet" is the name we've use historically to talk about this
> repository, this is open for discussion. (personally I like the name -
> we have to agree this is how we want to name a XWiki "pluggable module"
> in the large sense).
>
> Here is my +1 for the above
>

+1 too.

Guillaume

I would also like to propose that we create a new category of JIRA
> projects : "XWiki Contributed Xlets" (or equivalent name) for such
> projects that desire to track issues for their released module, and have
> the tracker hosted by XWiki.org. I believe this will make easier to have
> real release cycles for such modules (for example, we can link to the
> JIRA project from the code.xwiki.org "module" page so that users can
> report issues instead of using the comments, we can use JIRAs changelog
> for release notes on the download page, etc.)
>
> And my +1 for this second proposal
>
> Please, let me know what you think
> Jerome.
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