For the record, applying this will make impossible to install XE (XWiki + KB flavor) without Internet.
Thanks 2016-09-11 19:33 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: > Hi devs, > > We have a platform distribution that allows users to pick the flavor they > wish to use. However we’re currently not advertising it. Instead we’re > currently advertising XE on the xwiki.org download pages. > > I’m proposing that we change that: > * Advertise the platform distribution in the download pages of xwiki.org. > We would simply call it “XWiki”, e.g. XWiki 8.3. > * Move existing xwiki-platform-distribution/xwiki-platform-flavor into > xwiki-platform-distribution/xwiki-platform-flavors/xwiki- > platform-flavor-base > * Create a new flavor in xwiki-platform-distribution/ > xwiki-platform-flavors/xwiki-platform-flavor-<new name here> > * I’m proposing to name this new flavor "Knowledge Base” (and the module > xwiki-platform-distribution/xwiki-platform-flavors/xwiki-platform-flavor-kb) > since this is what most users use XWiki for. The idea, initially, would > simply be to use the same deps as XE and maybe remove the Blog app (or not). > * Stop distributing the XE packagings > > We’re already well into the XWiki 8.3 dev (M2 is planned for tomorrow > Monday) so it seems a bit ambitious to do this for 8.3. We could do it for > 8.4 though. WDYT? > > Outstanding questions: > * How do we upgrade existing users using XE? > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
