Hi Sergiu, On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Hi devs, > > I'd like to start moving very old plugins out of the core and into the > contrib/retired repository. I agree for plugins for which we have other ways of doing things (either it's been rewritten with a newer architecture or there's another way of doing it). > For the moment, this includes: > - PatternPlugin (regexp based text replacements when running the old > rendering engine) +1 > - TablePlugin (pre-Radeox support for wiki table syntax) +1 > - GooglePlugin (search and spelling suggestions) How is this one supposed to work? Do we want to keep its feature as a component? If yes then -0 > - GraphViz (graph drawing, unmaintained for a long time; should be > replaced with a component) This one is useful and used by several users I know. I'd be -0 to move it out. IMO it should be removed but only once we have it rewritten as components only. > - MailPlugin (unmaintained mailbox reading plugin) This feature can be useful too. -0 > - QueryPlugin (old, unused precursor of the query service) +1 > - SVG (old, unmaintained plugin; should be replaced with a component) -0 > - testPlugin (test plugin, writen as a test plugin to test the plugin > functionality :) ) +1 > - XWikiUserManagementTools (precursor for the invitation application, > unmaintained) +1 > The remaining plugins must be rewritten as components first, since they > still provide useful functionality. This I agree: - move out plugins that we don't want anymore - keep plugins for which we want to keep the features and remove them once they've been migrated to components Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
