So the proposal for 8.2 (we’re already at RC1) is to consider that the default flavor is XE for now and to add the Home Page Tour + CKEditor extensions to XE.
We can then decide later on 8.3+) how we transition from XE to the default flavor. Hope it’s fine with everyone. Thanks -Vincent > On 21 Jun 2016, at 18:00, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > I’m transforming the brainstorming that was started in the thread > http://markmail.org/message/exlndbq3tw2thmmu into a VOTE mail since this is a > very important decision. > > So I’m asking you to vote for defining a new direction for the XWiki Core Dev > Team (i.e. for the XWiki GitHub Organization). The need was triggered by the > Tour and CKEditor extensions which are currently in xwiki-contrib and that we > want our users to have by default. For more details see this thread: > http://markmail.org/message/exlndbq3tw2thmmu > > So here’s the strategy: > > * Make XWiki Github org == minimal runtime, where minimal means “basic wiki” > (page edition, history, linking, wiki markup, etc). The notion of “basic > wiki” would need to be better defined but this can be done later on. > * Provide a "Base Flavor" which corresponds to this “basic wiki”, as part of > xwiki-platform (this would be xwiki-platform-distribution). > * Provide another flavor, the "Default Flavor” which would add some > hand-picked third-party extensions (i.e. from contrib) such as the Tour app > and CKEditor (to start with, we could also add the markdown syntax for > example which is one of the most asked syntaxes). Note that this Default > Flavor would actually be a “replacement" of xwiki-enterprise. > * The Default Flavor would have at least the same release cycle as the base > flavor but it could have more releases (if some of the bundled third-party > extensions has some important bug fixes or new features that we want to offer > quickly without waiting for the next base flavor release). > * The consequence is that the XWiki Dev Team would need to be a bit more > careful to monitor the quality of bundled third-party extensions in contrib > (check commits, do some smoke testing, etc). Note that the goal of the > Default flavor would not be to offer verticals (for this there should be some > contrib flavors) and thus it wouldn’t bundle a lot of third-party extensions. > Basically we’ll need to validate the version of those third-party extensions > that include in the flavor. > > My POV is that globally this would offer more flexibility for our users > (they’ll be able to install extensions such as CK and Tour in older XWiki > versions and they’ll get more frequent releases) at the cost of some overhead > to develop extensions that work in several versions. The dev team is pretty > small and thus it means developing a bit less fast but it’s probably as > important, if not more important, to make the code we develop available in > older xwiki versions, as XWiki gains traction. > > Here’s my +1 > > Please cast your vote. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
