> On 12 Sep 2016, at 17:12, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? >> > > Can we make the new KB flavor ids as an alias of the old XE id? Just like > we declare the properties section in the pom (not sure if it's possible, > but this way the EM won't see it as something different, but just as > something renamed).
Yes, Thomas has given more details in his answer. Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty > > >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
