+1

On 02/19/2011 09:44 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 15:42, Thomas Mortagne
> <[email protected]> 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)
I wish there was less work for the release manager but that is a different 
issue.

>>> * 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)
>> * What about a specific maven group id ? org.xwiki.rendering ?
> 
> * Another idea: since we move it what about moving it to github ? Will
> have more visibility from the start and a lot easier to contribute
> plus it's a very good occasion to start using git.

+1

Caleb

> 
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Thomas Mortagne
>>
> 
> 
> 

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