This is a bad idea IMO. When we talked about that the releases were a lot less frequent they are now.
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Part 1 > ===== > > I was looking at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#HTopLevelExtensions > and found the thread where it was voted in July 2014: > http://markmail.org/message/4hglttljiio5v2km > > Does anyone remember the thread were we decided to not do it? > > I also found this VOTEd thread from 21st June 2016: > http://markmail.org/message/rb5xuex3mpzg3lsm > > This new thread is not contradictory with > http://markmail.org/message/4hglttljiio5v2km so it doesn’t supersedes it. > Thus there really must be some other thread where we decided to not implement > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#HTopLevelExtensions. > > Part 2 > ===== > > Now, about http://markmail.org/message/4hglttljiio5v2km we have almost > implemented it. We’re just missing one point: > > “ > * The Default Flavor would have at least the same release cycle as the base > flavor but it could have more releases (if some of the bundled third-party > extensions has some important bug fixes or new features that we want to offer > quickly without waiting for the next base flavor release). > “ > > And later on: > > “ > Technically this means putting the Default Flavor in a > separate github repo (same as xwiki-enterprise being in a separate repo). We > need to discuss how we do it: > - consider it’s XE for now and just add the 2 deps of Tour and CK to XE > - introduce a new repo for the default flavor and do the build for it and > > deprecate XE in favor of it. For now we probably need to hardcode the flavor > id > in the platform WAR till we’re ready to have the flavor selection screen at > startup (and for HSQLDB/Jetty packaging we need a hard-coded flavor anyway). > " > > Right now we’ve put the “Standard Flavor” (that’s the new name) inside > xwiki-platform but we discussed back then move it to a separate repo in the > xwiki github organization and have only the base flavor in platform. > > Should we do what we decided? > > Thanks > -Vincent > -- Thomas Mortagne
