On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 18:21, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Denis Gervalle wrote:
>
> > 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
> ?
>
> I don't agree about removing any history.
>
> It looks to me that using git means using a lot of disk space (since you
> get a local repo with full history), we need to live with that or not use
> git at all.
>

Well, let say that I both agree and disagree. For me, the main advantage of
using Git is to have more contributors that participate, since the project
is easy to fork... and merge ! Moreover, reducing the number of repos,
simplify also contribution, and it goes the same direction. So, I really
think we should weight the consequence of having a so heavy history, that
could afraid contributors.
I would really prefer to left over some very old history, if this helps
receiving more contributions.

Denis


>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> > 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/
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