On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:57, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
We should move them from xwiki-core if it's not maintained. We don't have to completely remove them, they can go to xwiki-legacy which is here for that kind of use case. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
