On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Result: 5 +1, 1 +0 and no -1
>>>>
>>>> The vote is passed. I'll try to move them today to 
>>>> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/sandbox (note that the calendar plugin 
>>>> will be renamed since there's already a xwiki-calendar module in there - 
>>>> not sure what it is, probably a GSOC one).
>>>
>>> Why in sandbox ? I would say either in their own repository or in retired.
>>
>> Because:
>> 1) own repo means that the project is active and someone is an owner of it. 
>> We don't have any owner for these projects ATM. They can be graduated from 
>> sandbox when someone takes the ownership and release a new version of them.
>> 2) retired mean that these projects are not useful any more and have been 
>> replaced by better stuff. I think they're still useful for most of them, at 
>> least for: photo album, calendar, exo, alexa, adwords and s5. For workstream 
>> it's possible it's not useful anymore with our new message stream.
>>
>> Said differently retired projects means to people: don't even bother about 
>> those, they're dead and not useful any more. While sandbox means: these 
>> projects are in uncertain states but can still be useful if someone brings a 
>> little love to them.
>>
>> At least that's how I view the difference.
>>
>> Of course, these projets use the old plugin technology so we could decide 
>> that anything that uses the old plugin tech should be retired. But if we do 
>> this we need to decide this for all other projects using plugin tech too, 
>> not just these ones and there are lots of plugin projects in their own repos 
>> and in sandbox (not mentioning the several plugins that even in platform and 
>> that are not retired). We should also consider that some people may be using 
>> the photo album or calendar plugins so moving them to retired isn't a good 
>> idea IMO.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Problem whit moving theses project to sandbox is that sandbox does not
> fits very well project which already have tags and branches and
> several versions already. If a project was graduate from sandbox to
> own repository and because not very active anymore I doubt we would

s/because/became/

> put it back in sandbox.
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 5, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm proposing to move the following modules from xwiki-platform-core to 
>>>>> separate git repos in a xwiki-contrib organization on GitHub:
>>>>>
>>>>> xwiki-platform-calendar
>>>>> xwiki-platform-exo
>>>>> xwiki-platform-adwords
>>>>> xwiki-platform-alexa
>>>>> xwiki-platform-photoalbum
>>>>> xwiki-platform-s5
>>>>> xwiki-platform-workstream
>>>>>
>>>>> Rationale:
>>>>> * They're no longer working or supported
>>>>> * We can move them back if the xwiki dev team wants to support them again 
>>>>> in the future
>>>>> * It's cleaner than having a retired module in the xwiki organization 
>>>>> since a) it's not "polluting" the list of repos supported by the xwiki 
>>>>> dev team and b) it allows them to be separated in repos
>>>>>
>>>>> Future:
>>>>> * Also move modules currently in svn contrib to xwiki-contrib org. Note 
>>>>> that we need to verify if the svn app works with the GitHub svn 
>>>>> integration too since several users of svn contrib are using it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's my +1
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>
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