Hi Jerome, On Oct 5, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Jerome Velociter 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. What needs to be mentioned is that it'll be open to anyone who ask for it. > 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). I'm ok with this but it also means that we should allow anyone who ask for it access to the sandbox so that there's a path from sandbox to xlet. It wouldn't be mandatory but people who want to start coding int he sandbox could access it. > 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 > > 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.) +1 Thanks -Vincent > And my +1 for this second proposal > > Please, let me know what you think > Jerome. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
