On Feb 19, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Big +1 > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 14:38, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> I'd like to make the XWiki Rendering module a top level project. >> >> Rationale >> ======== >> >> * Make it more visible in order to get more outside visibility/contributions >> (it'll have its own wiki and can be advertised separately from the rest, see >> below) >> * Ensure that we keep the rendering module independent from xwiki's core >> model >> * Prepare it for a potential (no plans yet) future step which would be to >> either merge it with some other projects (such as Eclipse's WikiText) or >> move it to a forge with more visibility should we want that >> * Allow releasing it separately from the rest of XWiki with minimal >> dependencies which means it would be possible to use an oldish version of XE >> with the latest rendering module, allowing to provide features on an older >> platform. >> * Allows better controlling backward compatibility >> * Allows better and cleaner documentation (since it would be on a wiki of >> its own) >> * This module has grown large and has a life of its own now that warrants >> being a top level project >> >> The only cons I can see is that it means one more module to release >> separately and thus a little bit more time during the release process but I >> don't think that's a good enough reason to not do it (compared to the listed >> advantages above). >> >> Implementation details >> ================== >> >> * Name: XWiki Rendering (I hesitated giving it a code name such a XWiki >> Babel but in the end I think using a descriptive name is more inline with >> other names we have and clearer for the end users - it also allows us to not >> change existing package names this not breaking backward compatibility) >> * SVN: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/rendering >> * JIRA: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XRENDERING >> * Wiki: http://rendering.xwiki.org >> * Package: org.xwiki.rendering >> * Versioning strategy: Start at 3.0-SNAPSHOT and release XWiki Rendering >> 3.0 final just before we release XE 3.0 final. Then let it have its own >> life: 3.1, 3.2, etc, independently of platform/XE (although in practice it >> can be released at the same time as we release platform) >> * Directory structure: >> >> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/rendering/ >> |_ tags >> |_ branches >> |_ trunk >> |_ xwiki-rendering-api >> |_ xwiki-rendering-macros >> |_ (move here all macros that don't depend on XWiki's model - it's ok >> to depend on XWiki's WikiModel's interface though) >> |_ xwiki-rendering-standalone >> |_ xwiki-rendering-syntaxes >> |_ (all syntaxes submodules moved here) >> |_ xwiki-rendering-tests >> |_ xwiki-rendering-transformations >> |_ (all transformation submodules) >> >> * We leave in platform/xwiki-rendering/* the macros that depend on XWiki's >> model + the xwiki-rendering-xwiki module. >> * In the future, the idea will be to separate xwiki-rendering-api into >> several parts (rendering-block, rendering-renderers, etc) but that's a >> second step. > > * We will have to change maven artifact names > (xwiki-core-rendering-api -> xwiki-rendering-api)
Right. > * What about a specific maven group id ? org.xwiki.rendering ? Yes I'm proposing org.xwiki.rendering. Thanks -Vincent >> I'm on holidays right now (for a week) but that's something I'd be keep on >> implementing on and off during this week should we agree on it. >> >> Here's my +1 > >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
