On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 17:12, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 03:49 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: > > 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. > > Most of it (140M) comes from xwiki-core, which is not a real module yet. > I am not sure it really worse to consume that bandwidth for such information. But how could we keep it online for reference in case we need to check it ? Denis > And most of it comes from the very early history when we had all the > libs in the svn. > > So, we could decide to drop the history before the introduction of > maven, or we could move the core in its own repository and push for a > faster migration to components. > > Or we can just learn to live with it, we have a long history and we're > proud of it. > > > -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 > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
