On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 10:29 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > We need to provide a contrib top level POM for extension contributors. > ATM > > we recommend to extend the commons top level pom on > > http://contrib.xwiki.orgbut it's a bad idea because contributors > > forget to override some pom.xml > > elements (such as the <developers> section) and thus the published > > extensions end up with wrong information (such as wrong author: "XWiki > > Development Team"). > > > > The reason to put it in commons: > > * We will have dependencyManagement in it and thus it needs to be in sync > > with the commons version. It'll have the same version as commons top > level > > pom version. > > * Easy for us since it'll be released at the same time as commons > > * Easy for extension authors to choose the top level contrib version they > > need: they'll pick the one corresponding to the xwiki version they want > to > > depend on > > > > Note that since some extensions may want to depend on versions of XWiki > > older than 5.3 we can deploy this contrib pom also for older versions > using > > mvn deploy:deploy-file > > > > WDYT? > > +1. > > Will this be a copy of xwiki-commons-pom, or an extension that overrides > a few sections? > > Should it include the license check plugin, which currently enforces > LGPL2.1? Should we make it easier to change the license being enforced? > > What do we put instead of the <developers>? Do we make it a generic > "XWiki community", or leave it empty so that others can fill it in? We > can use the enforcer's requireProperty rule to check that mandatory > sections have been filled in. > See a first version at https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/contrib-pom/blob/master/pom.xml > I'd like to have a single xwiki.version property instead of the current > commons, rendering, platform.version, so that people don't have to think > which one should they use for each module. > I think that's orthogonal to this discussion. > Instead of deploy-file, why not actually release older versions? Since > it's a separate repository, we can do that, we don't have to sync > releases with the official XWiki releases. > It's not a separate repository, that's the point ;) I explained above why I think it's good to have it in xwiki-commons ;) Thanks -Vincent > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
