+1

Thanks,
Marius

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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