+1 On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:29, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On 02/19/2011 03:38 PM, Vincent Massol 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. > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
