On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> In order to automate the update of extensions imported from
>> https://github.com/xwiki/ we need to have nothing to modify when an
>> import is done.
>>
>> The last remaining thing is the name on which there is a debate is the
>> name. Right now the name we have in our maven project looks like
>> "XWiki Commons - Extension - Repository - Maven" so that's what we get
>> when importing this project or when viewing it in EM UI.
>>
>> Some of us want to keep this idish name for Maven build but don't like
>> it when displaying extension. I recently introduced a way to overwrite
>> some extension related informations like the name based on properties.
>>
>> So here are the choices we have:
>>
>> 1) Do nothing which mean display "XWiki Commons - Extension -
>> Repository - Maven" in EM UI and extensions.xwiki.org
>> 2) Change our naming in Maven <name> property for it to be more a name
>> than an id that would looks good in EM UI
>> 3) Keep the same naming for Maven <name> and overwrite it everywhere
>> using <xwiki.extension.name> property
>>
>> So, WDYT ?
>>
>> The one that makes the more sense to me is 2) so my +1 goes to this
>> one. Frankly I don't care too much having the current id based display
>> of the summary of built modules in Maven build and I personally won't
>> have any issue to know what name correspond to what project (but
>> that's because I know them well, I can understand new dev could be a
>> bit more lost).
>>
>> Then:
>> * +0 for 3) to +0 (I don't like too much having this special case
>> everywhere in our Maven pom.xml)
>> * -0 for 1) (I agree that it does not looks very nice as a display name).
>
> Exactly the same as Thomas for me. I'd really like if we could find a 
> solution that works for 2). Even in Maven it's supposed to be a name, i.e. 
> something readable, not an id… Now even with 2) we would still need a naming 
> rule and have some concise name.

Of course but I wanted to keep the (display name) naming discussion separated.

>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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