Big +1 .. and we should document them from Carbon developer guide. We should addd this as a TODO to carbon team roadmap. --Srinath
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Waruna Ranasinghe <war...@wso2.com> wrote: > +1 > This will help not only new devs to Carbon, but also others as well. > > Thanks, > Waruna > sent from my mobile. > > On Dec 18, 2011 12:17 PM, "Thilina Buddhika" <thili...@wso2.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Since we have a lot of developers(both internal and external) writing >> Carbon components and features, how about the $subject? We can create a >> Maven archetypes for Carbon components and features. >> >> Currently people are taking a copy of the existing component and modifying >> it. This has certain drawbacks. >> >> 1. People do not cleanup the pom.xml files by removing >> unnecessary dependencies, etc. >> >> 2. If there is an issue/bad practice in one component, it might >> be propagated to other new components. For example, when we cleanup pom >> files, we saw the same mistake is done over and over in some pom.xml files, >> mainly because they are copied. >> >> The idea is to give a proper starting point, so that they can start >> implementing it quickly. Also this is a way to enforce the Carbon best >> practices for a certain extent, for instance, it is possible to generate the >> configurations for Maven bundle plugin. >> >> Any suggestions or objections ? >> >> Thanks, >> Thilina >> >> -- >> Thilina Buddhika >> Associate Technical Lead >> WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com >> lean . enterprise . middleware >> >> phone : +94 77 44 88 727 >> blog : http://blog.thilinamb.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Carbon-dev mailing list >> Carbon-dev@wso2.org >> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > Carbon-dev@wso2.org > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > -- ============================ Srinath Perera, Ph.D. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hperera/ http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Carbon-dev mailing list Carbon-dev@wso2.org http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev
