On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > We want since a while to get rid of XE and transform this custom > distribution into an easier to maintain flavor you install on the > default XWiki distribution. We finally allocated time in the roadmap > to concentrate on it during 9.3-9.5 timeframe. > > The goal is to create a new flavor which would contain exactly the > same things than XE for now. > > = The place > > My main question is: where do we put it ? > > There is two main possibilities IMO: > 1) In platform under some xwiki-platform-flavors top level module > which would contain the current base XWiki flavor (which is the strict > minimum to have something that just work currently) and the new > Knownledge Base flavor > 2) In it's own repository > 2.a) Synchronized with the platform repository like XE > 2.b) With its own versioning > > I much prefer 1) which is a lot easier to maintain and release since > this is going to be the main recommended flavor when you install > XWiki. I really don't see the point of 2.a and 2.b does not worth the > pain IMO. > > = The name > > The current "code name" in the core team is "Knowledge Base" but maybe > some of you have better ideas. > > Here are some ideas: > 1) Knowledge Base > 2) Enterprise > 3) Default > 4) Standard 5) Basic 6) Start I guess I prefer 4) Standard. The problem with KB is that currently XE is not a clean KB, it has a lot of Groupware features. It depends if we want to have the standard flavor focused only on KB, or more like a demo of features and XWiki Capabilities. Also "Knowledge Base" for me was always a very cryptic name. Thanks, Caty > > My +1 goes to "Knowledge Base" which is more descriptive. Also I never > really liked "XWiki Enterprise" naming since "Enterprise" suffix very > often means that's the closed/paid version of an Open Source project > which is not the case at all here. > > Thanks, > -- > Thomas Mortagne >
