I want to work on a nice way to migrate to the new 1.3.0 schema for features for downstream projects (pax-web, cxf, activemq, etc…). I have two possible ways in mind which I'd like to discuss.
The first one would be to write an additional mojo for the maven plugin which would translate the new 1.3.0 schema to older schemas, deleting unsupported stuff. The mojo would thus generate an additional schema with a different classifier, either for the old schema, or for the new one. Another way would be to add this translation tool inside a bug-fix release of older branches, so that the old feature service could support the 1.3.0 syntax. The drawback is that this would not work on already existing releases obviously. Or we could do both. Fwiw, I haven't experimented yet on the translation, so for complex features definition using the new schema, I'm not sure yet if the translation will lead to usable results. As a last resort, if it's not usable, the downstream projects can manually provide the two repositories. Thoughts ? Guillaume Nodet
