On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Now that we're starting to use the Extension Manager (EM) we need to be > careful about the Description and Names we use in our pom.xml since they're > used by the EM to display information to the user. They're also used by the > XR application to import extensions located in maven repository into > extensions.xwiki.org (EXO). > > Right now our names are of the type shown here: > https://gist.github.com/2311321 > > For example: > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Parent POM ............ SUCCESS [0.004s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - API ................... SUCCESS [2.066s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Handler - Parent POM .. SUCCESS [0.017s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Handler - JAR ......... SUCCESS [0.133s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - Parent POM SUCCESS [0.004s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - Aether ... SUCCESS [0.132s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki .... SUCCESS [0.006s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki model SUCCESS [0.188s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki api SUCCESS [0.010s] > [INFO] XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - XWiki handler SUCCESS > [0.024s] > > These names are not nice names for users. Actually they're more IDs than > names. And having the users see those in our livetable on EXO isn't nice for > example. Nor is it nice if they see them in the EM UI. > > I thus propose that we change the way we use names in our pom.xml to use > English-readable names, without any "XWiki" prefix. > > For example, for the example show above we could have: > > Extensions > Extension API > Extension Handlers > JAR Extension Handler > Extension Repositories > Aether Extension Repository > XWiki Extension Repository > XWiki Extension Repository Model > XWiki Extension Repository API > XWiki Extension Repository Handler > > The alternative is to introduce a custom property in our pom.xm that would be > used by the EM and XR but that's not a good solution because it means even > more maintenance work. > > While not using technical id as names in our pom.xml is not as nice when > displayed in the Maven Reactor I feel it's still the best solution we have. > > Here's my +1
+1, using names as... names sounds the best choice to me. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
