I don't think we have consensus on this, so I'd like to call a vote.
Proposal: Migrate non-core plugins and themes to Roller Support project ---- We recently decided to ship only a couple of themes and plugins and we still need to figure out what to do with the themes and plugins that we don't ship with Roller. I'd like to propose that, not only should we remove them from the release, we should also remove them from Apache SVN. We should remove them from SVN and move them to the old Roller project at Java.Net and make them available for download there. Here's why: - We've already re-purposed the old Roller project site as the "Roller Support" site -- to host LGPL components and plugins/themes that depend on LGPL. - The extra themes and plugins aren't essential to the community of developers maintaining Roller. Ideally, Roller should ship with a couple really good themes/plugins and the rest should be provided an maintained by the community of Roller users. - By using the "Struts Applications" model, we can encourage more theme development by the community. Struts team members established a Sourceforge project to host Struts add-ons and contributors who don't necessarily have Apache committer status. - Themes and plugins can use other-licensed components freely, since the Roller Support project is not Apache territory. Specifics ---- Here are the specific themes and plugiuns to be moved. Themes to move - all except for: basic sotto brushedmetal frontpage Plugins to move - all except for: ConvertLineBreaksPlugin ObfuscateEmailPlugin TopicTagPlugin SmileysPlugin Votes ---- So far Allen is +1 on the idea Craig Russell agress too Anil seems to be leaning -1 Please cast your votes. - Dave
