Hi devs, Since we're going to use Maven POM metadata to display extensions in the Extension Manager UI it's important that we have all data filled and with correct value.
Sergiu pointed to me that currently our website <url> are wrong. This is because the top level POM has <url>http://xwiki.org</url> and Maven automatically suffixes it with artifact Ids. For example for Commons Component API this gives us: <url>http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-component/xwiki-commons-component-api</url> which is not pointing to anything valid. I see 2 ways of fixing this: Solution 1 ======== Do as I started this morning, i.e. set the <url> explicitly. For example I've set PHP Macro module URL this morning to <url>http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/PHP+Macro</url> and Commons Observation API (the 3 modules: parent + api + local) to <url>http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Observation+Module</url>. Pros: - Easy and we can point to wherever the documentation is located Cons: - Tedious - Fragile. If we rename a page on the wiki then the link is broken Solution 2 ======== Set the top level URL to something like: <url>http://xwiki.org/documentation?id=</url> For example for Commons Component API this will generate: <url>http://xwiki.org/documenation?id=/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-component/xwiki-commons-component-api</url> Then: * Have an apache redirection for /documentation to some wiki page such as http://xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ModuleDocumentation * Have the logic inside that page to transform paths (such as "/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-component/xwiki-commons-component-api" into proper URLs). Since I don't think we can have a generic logic, I'd simply put a big hashtable to start with. Pros: - Simple, no need to modify all poms. We only need to change the top level pom <url> value - Much easier to keep up to date since when we rename pages all we need to do is edit the ModuleDocumentation page. Actually when we support page renames across wikis we could have the links in that page be automatically renamed ;) With Solution 1, when you rename the URL you need to re-release the module which is a big pain. Cons: - I can't see any really :) We just need to be sure that http://xwiki.org/documentation is available. So I'm definitely for 2, WDYT? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
