> On 09 Jun 2016, at 11:15, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Where are the Flavors in this proposal?
IMO Flavors don’t change; they’re still there and you still get them when you start with an empty wiki. When you start an empty wiki you pick the flavor you want and on the configuration screen, there are some recommended extensions that are proposed. I think that’s the difference: flavors are a fixed set of extensions. The Recommended extensions screen is just for optional stuff that you may want. If the recommended extensins are brought as part of the flavor (ie if they are already installed) then they won’t be suggested on the configuration screen. Basically flavors are distribution. Once you install a distribution you can still install additional extensions by going to the Extension Manager. However we make the user’s file easier when he starts the first time by proposing some extensions. This provides 2 advantages: * We bring extensions that we deem important but that are not maintainted by the xwiki core dev team to the user. He doesn’t need to discover the EM UI nor find out which extensions are super nice for me. * It allows to propose some extensions that need to run early in the process, such as the Tour (the user needs the Tour to know how to reach the EM UI ;)). Another way of viewing this is that it’s a new feature of the EM/DW UI. The EM/DW module would provide a Recommended Extensions view as a Wizard when XWiki runtime starts the first time (and at each upgrade). Now what we would need to be careful about is not drowning the user under 50 recommended extensions or it would loose its power. I think this config wizard view should focus on Extensions that are super useful for getting started. Then later one the user could go to the EM UI and get a full list of Recommended Extensions, not just the one important for getting started. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thanks for the replies. I’m listening of course to everyone and I’ve tried >> in this mail to take all answers into account. >> >> First, let me state our current strategy and an alternative that I’ve been >> thinking about this morning under my shower ;) >> >> Current Voted Strategy >> ================== >> >> * Deliver an XWiki Runtime that is the best possible generic runtime (i.e. >> most usable, most useful). >> * As a consequence, remove all modules that vertical modules (i.e. that >> are clearly not useful to all flavors), such as FAQ, Blog, etc. Move them >> to xwiki-contrib >> * I want to stress out that the current voted strategy is not to produce a >> minimalist runtime >> >> New Strategy Proposal >> ================== >> >> I’ve tried to reconcile all the use cases listed in this thread before and >> I hope this proposal could be a good middle ground. In any case I found it >> worth debating to see if it could work. >> >> Also note that one aspect that we must not forget (and that led to the >> last proposal I sent on this thread) and that people tend to forget, is >> the time it takes to support various versions of XE in an extension and the >> manpower that exists in the xwiki community (don’t forget that everything >> we do is a tradeoff; if you support another version of XE in an extension, >> it means you’re not coding an important improvement or fixing an important >> bug in the platform). >> >> So here’s the idea: >> >> * Change the purpose of the XWiki Github organization from the voted one >> described above to be: Provide a minimalist runtime. >> * Since working in this direction will not happen overnight, the idea >> would be to very slowly take out modules, starting with obvious ones. >> * The issue that this strategy raises is that users will not get a good >> user experience since lots of things will be lacking and this is where my >> new idea fills the gap: >> ** The first time (or whenever you upgrade) your run the XWiki Runtime (be >> it whether your run the HSQLDB/Jetty packaging or any other packaging) you >> get a Configuration wizard >> ** This Configuration Wizard suggest some recommended extensions that the >> XWiki Core Dev Team hand-pick. We would start with 2: >> *** Propose to the user to run a Tour to learn how to use XWiki (it would >> install the Home Page Tour which depends on the Tour app) >> *** Propose to the user to install the CKEDitor WYSIWYG editor (by default >> we would only propose the wiki editor - We’ll need to get rid of the GWT >> editor, probably make it an extension) >> >> Pros: >> * The XWiki Core Dev Team continues to work on core stuff and as time >> progresses we move out non core stuff >> * This allows more people to contribute to the non-core stuff in the >> community >> * We control which extensions we want to recommend and thus we can always >> only take the very good ones and thus control the quality of the initial >> user experience >> * We get a mechanism allowing our users to get non-xwiki core dev >> team-supported extensions into the runtime (thus providing a good user >> experience) while not bundling them into the default XWiki runtime flavor. >> >> Cons: >> * The Tour and CKeditor extensions would still incur a higher cost of >> support/maintenance (but since they’ve already done the code, it’s marginal >> for the future and they’ll be able to abandon support for XWiki 6.x soon >> IMO too - Basically they probably only need to support 2 or 2.5 cycle >> versions). >> >> <similar idea> >> Ludo mentioned (and I agree with him) that it would be nice to be able to >> provide Demo content in the wiki so that users who want to test drive XWiki >> can do so with existing content and more clearly see and understand the >> advantages that XWiki brings. For this, I’d propose to create a Demo >> Content extension (some AWM app + some blog posts + etc) and once we have >> it, recommend it on the Configuration Wizard. >> </similar idea> >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> >>> On 08 Jun 2016, at 17:57, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Well, very sorry to drop in so late in this discussion, but it was not >>> obvious from the thread subject that your were discussing a major >> subject. >>> >>> IMO, moving application that works currently on 6.x to the core, has no >>> benefit for our users, it just introduce restrictions. It does not have >> any >>> benefit for us either, it just require more backports. I do not >> understand >>> this move at all for application that are not minimal requirements. I do >>> not understand your point Vincent when you say that these applications >> are >>> horizontal and obviously part of platform according to your "Executive >>> summary". >>> >>> Regarding the tour application, it is not require at all, it is just a >> nice >>> helping tool that we want to ease newcomers, but experienced user will >>> never need it. It could be exchanged for an alternative, and it is >> exactly >>> the same kind of application than the blog that we are moving out. >>> Regarding the CKEditor, do we consider that a WYSIWYG editor is required >>> for a wiki to be a wiki ? IMO, WYSIWYG editor is not a requirement to use >>> the platform, it is nice to have, but not required. I have use it very >>> sparsely until now, and not having it would not have change much for me. >>> >>> So, I currently do not see any benefit of moving these modules to >> platform, >>> since these are already well living in contrib. >>> >>> Your other point about reducing platform to the minimal runtime would >> cause >>> platform to reduce to EM does not really looks like something that will >>> happen. In theory, you are right, so XWiki would be even less featured >> then >>> maven. But, I doubt you could reasonably use such a tools for anything >>> useful. I doubt XWiki compare to maven. I doubt that horizontal module >> like >>> security, logging, model, storage, etc… will ever be considered optional. >>> Even a plain text editor is a minimal requirement to starts, else this is >>> no more a wiki, and I even wonder what it is ? a tool that brings >> together >>> arbitrary java module… looks weird. So no, the minimal runtime is >>> definitely not just EM. >>> >>> So, I really wonder what is the direction we are taking. I will not stop >>> you with a veto, but I have the strong feeling these decisions are wrong. >>> For the principle of not depending on contrib for our default user >> flavor, >>> exchanging the blog app with the tour app, this does not make sens for >> me, >>> sorry. >>> >>> Thanks for reading. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> FTR I’ve discussed internally with Thomas, Marius and Anca and we all >>>> agreed that it makes sense to move The Tour app + CKEditor to the >> platform. >>>> >>>> There are various reasons but a very important one is simply the >> manpower >>>> that it requires to maintain extensions on lots of XWiki versions and >>>> currently the active devs on xwiki are not enough to do that. This is >> the >>>> reason we dropped this strategy in the past and decided to release the >>>> whole platform together with the same version. >>>> >>>> As part of this the technical debt is being increased since supporting >>>> several versions and old versions means doing hacks. >>>> >>>> If you see another possibility that doesn’t require more work please >> raise >>>> it here. >>>> >>>> We need to progress and have CKEditor and Tour bundled in 8.2M2(which >> is >>>> already started) and thus, barring any negative comments, we’ll start >> the >>>> move next week. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent >>>> >>>>> On 07 Jun 2016, at 15:39, Guillaume Delhumeau < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It also means to move the tour application in that old branches too. >>>>> >>>>> 2016-06-07 13:59 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 07 Jun 2016, at 10:27, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 07 Jun 2016, at 09:37, Guillaume Delhumeau < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Moving Tour Application into platform makes sense to me (it becomes >> a >>>>>>>> critical component and deserves a proper support). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For me, it’s really about the definition of what the XWiki github org >>>>>> represents. Right now with the new strategy == “Everything needed for >>>> the >>>>>> default XWiki runtime, a.k.a base/default flavor” (what we’ve been >>>> calling >>>>>> XE so far but that we’ll slim down a bit, for example by removing the >>>> Blog >>>>>> app and move it to contrib). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Now we could still decide to have some flavor in contrib and have the >>>>>> tour app included in that flavor but not in “the default XWiki >>>> runtime”. In >>>>>> practice this would mean promoting this flavor instead of the >>>> base/default >>>>>> flavor. The question will arise anyway when we next talk about other >>>>>> flavors that we may want to have in contrib such a KB flavor, >> workgroup >>>>>> flavor, web flavor, etc. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, the current >>>>>>>> application supports XWiki >= 6.4.1. By moving it to platform, we >> will >>>>>> only >>>>>>>> support the last XWiki version. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is a tough topic indeed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually in practice we would support not only the last XWiki version >>>> but >>>>>> also the LTS (i.e. 7.4.x + 8.x). If we wanted to support 6.4.x we >> could >>>> (we >>>>>> still have a stable-6.4.x branch ATM that we were supposed to remove) >>>> but >>>>>> it would mean changing our support strategy to support more branches… >>>> and >>>>>> it means supporting the whole platform for 6.4.x, not just one >>>> extension… >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> For the tour there’s the solution of keeping it in contrib and >>>>>> introducing a flavor but for CKEditor it’s harder to justify that it’s >>>> not >>>>>> part of the base flavor IMO but maybe it’s possible and we would offer >>>> only >>>>>> the wiki editor in the base flavor. Of course we could modify our >>>>>> functional tests fwk to support running on various versions of the >>>>>> dependencies and have CI builds to ensure that an extension works with >>>> all >>>>>> versions but it’s not perfect and it would mean that for the first >> time >>>> we >>>>>> would have code in the xwiki github org that would not use the latest >>>>>> APIs/latest JDK features. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The other option is Marius’s, i.e. accept that we hand-pick some >>>>>> extensions from contrib that we bundle in the base/default flavor such >>>> as >>>>>> the Tour app, CKEditor integration, etc. In this case, we would just >>>> need >>>>>> to redefine what “xwiki github org” means. Saying “core component” >> would >>>>>> not be enough, it would needs a more precise definition. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Interesting topic ;) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any other option that we have? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2016-06-06 15:31 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 06 Jun 2016, at 15:24, Marius Dumitru Florea < >>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Vincent Massol < >> [email protected]> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 06 Jun 2016, at 14:50, Marius Dumitru Florea < >>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Alexandru Cotiuga < >>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> As it was decided already, a Homepage Tour have to be >>>> implemented. >>>>>>>>>>> However, >>>>>>>>>>>>> no option regarding the place where the Tour Application should >>>> be >>>>>>>>>>> added as >>>>>>>>>>>>> dependency was discussed. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> There are some possible options: >>>>>>>>>>>>> 1) XWiki Enterprise >>>>>>>>>>>>> 2) XWiki Platform Distribution >>>>>>>>>>>>> 3) XWiki Platform Helper >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> 4) Is there any option to have the Tour Application as a part >> of >>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>>> Core ? >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> What would be the best way to include the Contrib applications >> in >>>>>>>>> XWiki? >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On this topic (sorry if I hijack your thread) I was wondering >> why >>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>>>> we >>>>>>>>>>>> have dependencies from platform/enterprise to contrib. We have >>>> lots >>>>>> of >>>>>>>>>>>> third party dependencies, contrib could be considered as such. >>>>>>>>> Moreover, >>>>>>>>>>>> we're in the process of moving non-core (vertical) extensions >> out >>>> of >>>>>>>>>>>> platform to contrib. It would be a pity to move something from >>>>>> contrib >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>>>>> platform and then back to contrib. I have the same issue with >> the >>>>>>>>>>> CKEditor >>>>>>>>>>>> Integration extension. We want CKEditor as the default editor, >>>>>> bundled >>>>>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>>>>>> the default distribution, but do we need to move it to platform? >>>>>> Same >>>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>>>>>> the Welcome Tour. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I’d personally not like this for the following reasons: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> 1) I like that the XWiki runtime is all released at once with all >>>>>>>>>>> extensions making it using the same versions and verified to work >>>>>>>>> together. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> XWiki runtime has lots of third party dependencies. Bootstrap, >> Solr, >>>>>>>>>> jQuery, just to name a few. I don't see how having the source code >>>> in >>>>>> our >>>>>>>>>> repo (platform) makes a difference at runtime when the >>>>>>>>>> integration/functional tests verify they work together. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Because they don’t! :) Just check any extension in contrib and >> you’ll >>>>>> see >>>>>>>>> their func test (when they have some!) don’t test that they work >> with >>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> latest version of XWiki… >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2) Support. The XWiki runtime is supported by the XWiki Core Dev >>>> Team. >>>>>>>>>>> Extensions in contrib are not supported by the XWiki Core Dev >> Team. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> So the FAQ application you moved out of platform is no longer >>>>>> supported >>>>>>>>> by >>>>>>>>>> the XWiki Core Dev Team? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Correct. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The extension page >>>>>>>>>> >>>> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/FAQ+Application >>>>>>>>>> doesn't reflect this. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I added my name to the list as a supporter. I’ve kept “XWiki Dev >>>> Team” >>>>>>>>> because it's a past authors and it wouldn’t make sense to remove >> it. >>>>>> But >>>>>>>>> yes it’s no longer officially supported by the XWiki Core Dev Team. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Note that e.x.o doesn’t say who maintains a given extension, it >> just >>>>>> says >>>>>>>>> who participated to developing it ;) We’re currently missing the >> info >>>>>> on >>>>>>>>> whether the extension is actively supported and by whom. FTR >>>> Confluence >>>>>>>>> does this with a “supported” label that you can hover over and >>>> provides >>>>>>>>> info. For example: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >> https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.numberedheadings/cloud/overview >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> In addition xwiki-contrib is very open and anyone can make >>>>>> modifications >>>>>>>>>>> there and quality is thus harder to guarantee. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> We defined the xwiki github organization as containing horizontal >>>>>>>>> modules, >>>>>>>>>>> ie modules that can be required for any flavor and both CKEditor >>>> and >>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>>> Tour Application fit the need. By opposition to vertical modules >>>>>> which >>>>>>>>> make >>>>>>>>>>> sense only for some use cases (like the Meeting Manager app) and >>>> not >>>>>> by >>>>>>>>>>> default in XE. We have the option of having flavors in contrib >> for >>>>>>>>> those if >>>>>>>>>>> we want though. For CKEditor it’s not a good thing since we’d >> like >>>>>> it by >>>>>>>>>>> default. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> One alternative (which I’m not fond of at all) would be to have >>>>>> ckeditor >>>>>>>>>>> as a separate git repo in the xwiki github organization. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>>>>> Marius >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>>>>>> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
