Hi, General +1 for the direction.
Thanks, Eduard On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
