I've created ISPN-3728 to track this.

On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Tristan Tarrant <[email protected]> wrote:

> +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,
>>>> --
>>>> Mircea Markus
>>>> Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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