Hi devs, I won't have time to work on this actively before next Monday (I'm still on holidays and a bit sick). However next Monday is 3.0 M3 release date.
Should the 3.0M3 be postponed by 1 day (I think I need 1 day for the move)? Should I do this while in 3.0 RC1? Thanks -Vincent On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:38 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
