On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose forking wikimodel (http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/) > and move its source code into our code base in XWiki Rendering as a separate > module for now. > > Motivation > ======== > > * Wikimodel has been inactive for years (since 2009). Actually that's not > quite true, there's been one developer working on it regularly, it's Thomas > Mortagne… > > * We heavily depend on wikimodel in the XWiki Rendering module (for our > syntax parsers) which is a key module for XWiki > > * It's more difficult for us to contribute to the wikimodel project since it > means: > ** committing in a different project with different rules > ** there's nobody doing releases on the wikimodel projet and we need the > releases to be synced with our releases since otherwise we cannot release on > a SNAPSHOT dependency > ** there's no community there so it's not fun and doesn't help for quality > control/reviews/etc > ** since we push XWiki Commons and XWiki Rendering to Maven Central we also > need the wikimodel releases to be pushed to Central which is not happening now > > * The wikimodel project has a different scope than our need. Mikhail (owner > and admin of Wikiodel - not active since 2009 - some commits here and there) > wanted it to remain only for wiki syntaxes. We added support for HTML parsing > in it but Mikhail never liked it and wanted us to move it to XWiki. > > * We have some impedance mistmatch between the wikimodel model and the xwiki > rendering model which causes us to do some circumvolution in the code which > leads to issues still beeing open in our JIRA (they've been opened for a long > time now) > > * We believe wikimodel would benefit from a larger and active community > within the XWiki ecosystem. Wikimodel has been stagnating for years and we'd > like it to live on and evolve. > > Action Plan > ========= > > Thus Thomas and me are proposing to do the following: > > * Move the sources in a new rendering module as is and use it as a library > (same as now except we rename the module name and release it under the XWiki > umbrella). > * Modify all header to put our LGPL headers everywhere > * We keep the attribution as is recommended by the ASL (see > http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#Distribute-changes) by > adding a comment to all sources explaining where the source come from and in > which license it was and who authored the initial code and how XWiki > committers have participated to the wikimodel project. We also put that > information in the NOTICE file. > * We modify the source code slowly over time to integrate it cleanly without > our code and remove the hacks we had to do, and we bring improvements > * We post a mail on the wikimodel mailing list explaining all this and > inviting the current wikimodel committers to become committers on the xwiki > rendering module (provided they agree to follow our dev rules). We also > explain how contributors can contribute (link to jira, link to github for > pull requests, etc) > > Related question (not part of the vote) > ============================= > > * We could decide to move XWiki Commons and XWiki Rendering under the ASL > since they're libraries and as libraries the ASL is the license that makes it > the easier possible to use from all other licenses. Right now ASL code cannot > use our Rendering module because we're LGPL. >
> Here's my +1 to this plan. +1 > > I'm also currently +1 to brainstorm about moving XWiki Commons and XWiki > Rendering to the ASL. +0, I need to read more about ASL versus LGPL license.. Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
