On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 in general. > > > On 16 Jun 2016, at 10:57, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 > >> > >> Also, if we retire the jira project, it means that we stop the support > for > >> this application (since no new issues can be created), effectively > retiring > >> the whole application itself, not only its jira project. > >> > >> I`m not sure if we currently have a documented process for retiring > contrib > >> extensions, but we should at least update the descriptions (and maybe > title > >> as well - marking it [Retired]) on the e.x.o. page and on the contrib > repo > >> to clearly mention that the app is no longer actively supported by > anyone. > > > > We don't have any process. We actually never done it before. What we > > could easily do is add a property in ExtensionClass to indicate an > > extension is retired in which case: > > * the extension does not appear in EM anymore (i.e. make the extension > > "invalid") since that's something we want for this kind of extension I > > think > > * the extension sheet make clear it's retired with some visible marker > > in the title and some warning at the beginning of the content > > Or simply remove the extension from e.x.o. I don’t think they should even > be visible on e.x.o since they’ll be visible when someone filters or > searches for extensions and will potentially confuse the user (even with > the banner/warnings). > > > If we want to keep it visible I’d not mix them with other extensions in > the LT but instead I'd introduce another page for retired extensions and > we’d add a link to retired extensions on e.x.o home page somewher. > I would keep it on e.x.o for documentation. There may be users that are forced to use this application. Note that this application is in a similar situation to the Radeox macros that Thomas wanted to remove from e.x.o . Check the "Remove old Radeox macros from e.x.o?" thread. I agree that it shouldn't appear on EM and on the e.x.o live table. Thanks, Marius > > I think we need an agreement from authors in order to mark an extension as > retired. We could say that we ask on the list for an agreement putting in > cc the authors (when we have their email addresses) and if we don’t get any > answer in 2 weeks, we go ahead and retire it. If they say they still want > to maintain it, we keep it. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > P.S.: The link to the new old jira project would still need to be added > to > >> the e.x.o page since it`s currently missing. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Eduard > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Alexandru Cotiuga < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi devs, > >>> > >>> Currently, the Meeting Manager Application [ > >>> > >>> > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Meeting+Manager+Application > >>> ] > >>> is marked, with a warning, as "This application is superseded by the > >>> Meeting > >>> Application". The application is written in xwiki/1.0 syntax and is > full of > >>> deprecated usages which makes it unusable at least since XWiki 6.2. > >>> > >>> Considering the above reasons I propose to retire the MEETING Jira > project. > >>> > >>> 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
