+1 Re gwt modules, only xwiki-gwt-wysiwyg-server needs to generate a zip (it currently generates a war). All the rest generate jars.
Thanks, Marius Vincent Massol 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 XEclipse is no longer maintained and it doesn't handle the xwiki/2.0 syntax.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 > > = 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? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
