On 11/07/2013 11:10 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > 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 ;) >
Ah, right, somehow I missed that part. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
