On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 01/17/2012 04:24 AM, Vincent Massol 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) > > +1. > > What name will it have? It can't have the exact name as before, but it would > be OK to just prefix it, like xwiki-rendering-wikimodel or something.
xwiki-rendering-wikimodel for now. The idea is that this module will disappear as we progress and its code will move in -api and -parser modules. > An estimated timeline? Do you want to do this in 3.5 or 4.0? 4.0 > Do we remove code that we don't use? For example, will we keep both WEM and > WOM? Good question. We'll need to decide this as we progress. WOM isn't implemented AFAIK. I'm starting the move now. Thanks -Vincent >> 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. >> >> I'm also currently +1 to brainstorm about moving XWiki Commons and XWiki >> Rendering to the ASL. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
