+1, also only the gui-demo should be in the main repo. All other 
examples/demos should be moved to quickstarts or their own repos.

Tristan

On 11/18/2013 09:15 AM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Sanne Grinovero <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> +1
>> (as I've always been, damn my "pessimistic" opinions)
>>
>> However there is an alternative. If I recall correctly, one of your
>> motivations for the split was to not keep maintaining all the
>> non-essential components.
>> I really like that idea, I just think it was implemented the wrong way.
>>
>> If you identify which components are non-essential (and you don't need
>> them on the release day), you should keep them out but unlock them to
>> a different version numbering, and especially never ever depend on
>> snapshot versions.
>>
>> Let's try define the requirements:
>> - any project should compile successfully out of the box
>> - last minute "surprises" before a release needs to be done is not manageable
>>
>> You could get this easily if you allow the projects which are in a
>> different repository to lag behind: you can't require to release those
>> other projects each time you release an Infinispan "core" version.
>> Which inherently implies that if you have something which is essential
>> for a core release, it needs to be moved back to catch failures early
>> on and keep them in perfect sync.
>>
>> Other module maintainers would then catch up on compatibility breaking
>> changes of Infinispan core as (and when) they can. We can of course
>> have a goal of keeping aligned quickly, but it should be optional
>> (i.e. non-blocking for innovation and progress on the core module).
> + 1 to all said above and Mircea's suggestion.
>
> The thing is that Infinispan Server, and a subset of the cache stores really 
> need to be released at the same time as Infinispan core. All those modules 
> would benefit from living in same repo, making the compilation, CI and 
> release much easier. Some examples: Level DB store needs to be brought back, 
> whereas Cassandra cache store can live on its own.
>
>> It's perfectly doable, all our other projects depending on Infinispan
>> have lived well so far, with the occasional pain to fix some backwards
>> compatibility issue but that's part of the dance. For example Search
>> depends on Hibernate ORM, JGroups and Infinispan.. we try to catch
>> backwards compatibility with ad-hoc CI jobs but it's not going to
>> catch all problems, nor it's our intention to "block" other projects
>> from innovating: it's rather for us to be aware of possible problems
>> asap.. but none of these problems are allowed to prevent us to release
>> early and often.
>>
>> [BTW the reason the Search case isn't perfect is because we target
>> specific platforms like AS/Wildfly, not necessarily the latest
>> Infinispan]
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sanne
>>
>>
>> On 15 November 2013 12:43, Mircea Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Given all the compiling problems we had since we've split in multiple 
>>> github repos (server, stores and embedded) makes me think that the split 
>>> wasn't such a great idea after all( and that I was hmm, wrong). Shall we 
>>> move everything back into a single repo? We can still keep different CI 
>>> runs for cache stores, server etc, but at least all this builds will 
>>> compile everything.
>>>
>>> wdyt?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
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>>> Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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