Hi devs, > On 26 Jul 2016, at 13:49, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > I’d like to propose some changes to the governance related to paying > extensions and extensions.xwiki.org and the Extension Manager. > > * Make extensions.xwiki.org an extension repo for free and open source > extensions only. This is the case till now but during the last governance > change VOTE we had said we could allow non-free versions. After more thinking > I believe it’s better that companies who want to have paying apps provide > them through their own extension repository. One issue is that these > companies will need to have users register and log in and we cannot do that > on xwiki.org. > > * Allow top sponsoring companies to have their extension repository defined > in the default XWiki configuration (in xwiki.properties). I’m proposing that > sponsoring companies require 3 active committers to be able to have their > stores listed by default in the XWiki config. The same would be done on > nexus.xwiki.org which would proxy any maven repo from a top sponsoring > company. Note that any company (even one not participating to the development > of the XWiki project can provide an extension repository with some > instructions for users to add their repo to their config - This point here is > only about having some repos by default). > > * Allow the top sponsoring company (TSC) an advertising space on the home > page of extensions.xwiki.org to advertise extensions it wishes to promote.
On this last point, and FYI, there’s now a first paying app advertised on ext, see at http://extensions.xwiki.org/ Thanks -Vincent > Please cast your votes. > > Here’s my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > >
