On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas, > > On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi devs, > > > > Following the discussion on http://markmail.org/message/uck6w56gqus2mxswI > > would like to extract the query plugin from xwiki-platform-legacy-oldcore > > and move it to retired repository. > > Normally it's our strategy to keep forever what's in legacy. As I > understand it, your use case is to reduce the size of the WAR by removing 3 > JARs brought by this plugin. Is it just a problem of size or is there some > other reason? > > Now I can see 2 choices for us: > > * Solution 1: Keep the plugin in legacy but extract it out of > legacy-oldcore into legacy-query-plugin and don't bundle it by default in XE > * Solution 2: Move it to retire but create an extension entry on e.x.o. so > that users who need it can still install it easily (IMO it doesn't have to > be installable through the EM, keeping it as a plugin is fine) > > Now it would be nice to have a special release notes area in the > Distribution Wizard where we could put some release-related information. > For example when someone upgrade to 4.4 and if we chose to retire the > plugin we would put something like: "The old Query plugin has been retired > from the NN distribution you've installed and is no longer actively > maintained. However if you're using it in some wiki pages, you can still > install it by going to XXX.". This information could be taken from some > README file that we provide at the root of the WAR for example. > > We could use this area whenever we break user-related backward > compatibility. > > WDYT? > > Now personally I'm ok with your proposal Thomas (+1) as long as: > * The user knows about it. Release notes is one solution but the solution > I indicated above goes even further and would be a nice addition IMO. > * There's an easy way for him/her to install it > Why not for usertools and chart plugins that you moved to retired ? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > The good things is that we will get rid of 3 jars in standard XE by doing > > this. > > > > I plan to do it in 4.4M1. > > > > WDYT ? > > > > Here is my +1 > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
