On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > Sergiu has extracted the AutoTag plugin from oldcore in its own module. > That's cool. > > However he's also marked it @deprecated while doing so. And he's stopped > bundling it in XE. > > This raises several question: > > 1) Do we consider that what the plugin does it not useful? Because if we > consider it's useful we might not want to deprecate it without offering an > alternative. It's not because a technology is deprecated that we should > deprecate stuff using that technology. Deprecated means: don't use this, > instead use that. BTW it should be our rule that when we add the > @deprecated tag we also mention what to use instead. > > 2) If we consider it's not useful anymore. We have 2 choices: > 2a) Move it in legacy modules > 2b) Move it to retired/contrib > > My opinion: > * It could be useful but I'm not sure the XWiki Dev team wants to support > it. IMO it should not be deprecated since it can still be useful and > there's no replacement for it. > * Since I don't think the XWiki Dev Team should support it, I'd move it to > xwiki-contrib/retired and publish it on e.x.o. for users who want to still > use it. > * Since this is breaking our new rule regarding deprecations/legacy it > requires a VOTE to move it to contrib/retired. It also needs to be clearly > mentioned in the Release Notes as a breakage and explain how user can add > it back to their wikis. > > Let me know what you think and I'll send a VOTE if you agree with what I > said above. > I absolutely do not know what it does, but I agree with your opinion if there is no recommended alternative. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
