On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After brainstorming with Thomas, Sergiu and Fabio we came to the following 
> idea:
>
> Proposal
> =======
>
> * Don't have top level extension git repositories and instead put all 
> extensions/modules in the top level platform repository
> * This means releasing all modules/extensions under the *same* version (the 
> platform version)
>
> ^^^^^^^^
> This is the important part!
>
+1 for me

I just had a thought about the granularity... Having everything in a
big repo will make people clone more than 200Mb of source code even to
hack a little module (currently xwiki-trunks on github downloads 277Mb
of code). But maybe this is not really an issue.

-Fabio

> Pros
> ====
>
> * Much simpler release process
> * Much simpler JIRA organization (1 project instead of 50 or so)
> * Much simpler for the user: simpler to log a new issue in jira + they'll 
> know what version of a module they're using vs having to guess that XE 3.0 
> uses the Lucene plugin v 1.45) and for contributors
>
> Directory org
> ==========
>
> platform/
>  |_ modules/
>    |_ xwiki-platform-search/
>      |_ xwiki-platform-search-lucene/
>      |_ xwiki-platform-search-application/
>    |_ xwiki-platform-url/
>    |_ xwiki-platform-skin-colibri/
>    |_ xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/
>    |_ ...
>  |_ tools/
>  |_ distribution/
>
> Details:
>
> * Modules contains a flat list of directories, each directory representing a 
> "feature". Everything corresponding to a feature is under that feature's 
> directory, independently of the underlying technologies used (be it plugins, 
> components, xar, etc)
> * Maven modules previously located in platform/web are moved in 
> platform/modules. Except platform/web/standard which goes in 
> platform/distribution. wysiwyg modules go in xwiki-platform-wysiwyg/ (we need 
> to decide if gwt-dom and gwt-user modules go in there too or if we want to 
> have a xwiki-platform-gwt module - Marius?)
>
> Migration details
> =============
>
> * Change the current org in git
> * Move several jira projects to retired
> * Modify platform jira project to have one jira component per feature (ie per 
> platform/modules module). Note that since the old xwiki-core contains lots of 
> stuff I propose to have one jira components for each "feature" it contains. 
> For example for anything related to the model it would go in the "model" jira 
> component. For things going in the user management it would go in a "user and 
> group" component, etc. I'll make a proposal for the full list of jira 
> components later on if this vote is passed.
> * Future: decide if we keep extensions.xwiki.org and if so what we put in 
> there (maybe just user extensions and move platform features in 
> platform.xwiki.org).
>
> Here's my +1 (meaning I'll help perform this move)
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
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