On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but I think they're linked because if we can't find a good name then we're 
left with option 3).

Thanks
-Vincent

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