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 This doesn't seem very friendly to me. FTR I've opened http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-8739 and FTM implemented option 3 to have friendly names. > 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 I'm ok with this one since: * I don't think it matters that much for us devs to have friendly names * It's more important that users see friendly names than us devs * It's less work to change in one place than to maintain 2 places > 3) Keep the same naming for Maven <name> and overwrite it everywhere > using <xwiki.extension.name> property I'm also fine with this one. Slightly more work but still doable. This is what I've done so far with http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-8739 using the new property introduced by Thomas. > 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). Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
