On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 22:43, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Jean-Vincent, Thomas and I (hope I didn't forget anyone) would like to
> propose the reorganization described below:
>
> = Projects =
>
> In 2007 we decided to start multiple projects based on the XWiki platform,
> namely: manager, workspaces and watch. The objective was to provide multiple
> products based on the XWiki platform with the same expectations in terms of
> quality; all those projects were top level projects to reflect that. A year
> later we decided to put all our development effort in XWiki Enterprise, since
> then all the projects except Enterprise and Office have been left aside.
>
> == XWiki Watch ==
>
> * Last significant jira issue fixed on 12/Jun/2009
> * Last release 1.1M1 (based on XE 1.5.1) - 11/Sep/08
>
> While watch code is compatible with recent XE versions its distribution is
> not maintained. The proposal is to move watch code somewhere else in the SVN
> (see below) and to drop the distribution modules (database, distribution,
> installers). Watch documentation (including installation guides) would be
> placed on code.xwiki.org and watch.xwiki.org pages would redirect to this new
> location. Watch JIRA would be made read only and move to the retired
> category. All new issues should use the existing Watch application JIRA.
>
> == XWiki Workspaces ==
>
> * Last significant jira issue fixed on 19/Oct/2008
> * Last release 1.2M1 (based on XE 1.5.2) - 19/Sep/08
>
> Workspaces is no longer maintened and it doesn't work with XE > 1.5.2. The
> proposal is to move it to contrib/retired and to display a banner on
> workspaces.xwiki.org saying that this product is retired (see
> http://beehive.apache.org/ for an example). Workspaces JIRA would be made
> read-only.
>
> == XWiki Eclipse ==
>
> * Last significant jira issue fixed on 06/Jan/09
> * Last release 2.2 - 11/Jan/09
>
> XEclipse is no longer maintained and it doesn't handle the xwiki/2.0 syntax.
> The proposal is to move it to contrib/retired and to display a banner on
> xeclipse.xwiki.org saying that this product is retired. XEclipse JIRA would
> be made read-only. Note that we hope the project will be brought back from
> the dead in the future.
>
> == XWiki Manager ==
>
> * Last significant jira issue fixed on 11/Apr/09 (XEM jira project)
> * Last release 2.2 (based on XE 2.2) - 16/Feb/10
>
> The Manager case is different, it's released often and isn't lagging behind
> XE. The problem is that we only release it labeled as stable, based on XE
> stable versions, which is bad since it's not properly tested before that.
>
> Manager is not a product per-se, all the code that allows to run a wiki farm
> is located in the xwiki platform, which means that having a different
> life-cycle for its distribution doesn't make sense and doesn't serve the
> product (less testing). Manager is a set of 2 plugins making easier to run a
> wiki farm. We should emphasize on this, make people understand that the
> virtual feature is a core feature and that they can take advantage of it on
> any XE release by using the correct plugins and apps. This way we could get
> feedback from people doing staged deployment. We wouldn't mislead people by
> releasing a distribution directly in a stable version.
>
> = SVN Organization =
>
> If we agree on the proposal above we need to refactor the SVN according to
> it. Possible implementation:
>
> {{code language="none"}}
> /svnroot/xwiki/
> |_ contrib/
> |_ people/
> |_ projects/
> |_ retired/
> |_ photoalbum/
> |_ s5/
> |_ workspaces/
> |_ xeclipse
> |_ enterprise/
> |_ extensions/
> |_ administration
> |_ application-manager/
> |_ plugin/
> |_ application/
> |_ blog
> |_ calendar
> |_ ircbot
> |_ officeimporter
> |_ panels
> |_ scheduler/
> |_ plugin/
> |_ application/
> |_ selenium/
> |_ skins/
> |_ colibri/
> |_ statistics/
> |_ plugin/
> |_ application/
> |_ tag/
> |_ plugin/
> |_ application/
> |_ watchlist/
> |_ plugin/
> |_ application/
> |_ webdav/
> |_ wiki-macro-bridge/
> |_ wiki-manager/
> |_ watch
> |_ application/
> |_ component/
> |_ gwt/
> |_ gwt-client/
> |_ gwt-server/
> |_ workstream/
> |_ platform/
> |_ components/
> |_ components-all/
> |_ xwiki-component/
> |_ xwiki-rendering/
> |_ ...
> |_ gwt
> |_ xwiki-gwt-api/
> |_ xwiki-gwt-dom/
> |_ xwiki-gwt-user/
> |_ xwiki-gwt-wysiwyg-client/
> |_ xwiki-gwt-wysiwyg-server/
> |_ web
> |_ tools/
> |_ xoffice
> {{/code}}
>
> Modifications summary:
>
> * 4 projects moved to retired: photoalbum, s5, workspaces, xeclipse
> * platform/web/standard content (templates and resources) moved to
> platform/core/web (packaging: zip)
> * platform/web/ gwt modules moved to platform/core/gwt (packaging: zip)
> * new plaform/distribution module (packaging: war) it replaces the previous
> platform/web-standard minimal webapp
> * new extensions top level project gathering plugins and applications,
> rationale:
> ** applications made of a plugin and an application will now be released in
> one place
> ** with the future extension-manager all the extensions (plugins, document
> sets, skins) should be released as a XAR
> ** coherent with extensions.xwiki.org
Could we include:
* upgrade to svn 1.6 (would make xem-web-debug tool project way easier
to use without speaking of many branching and merging improvements)
? ;)
>
> = XWiki.org Website Organization =
>
> {{code language="none"}}
> |_ www.xwiki.org
> |_ dev.xwiki.org
> |_ enterprise.xwiki.org
> |_ extensions.xwiki.org (was: code.xwiki.org)
> |_ l10n.xwiki.org
> |_ platform.xwiki.org
> |_ xoffice.xwiki.org
> {{/code}}
>
> wdyt?
+1
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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