On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is a new proposal on this subject. > > This supersets the following threads: > * http://markmail.org/message/mhhurc7lbyfanph7 > * http://markmail.org/message/nav5a77hzmhq4gq6 > * http://markmail.org/message/fd5ijxdquzdhtykw > > We discussed with other committers (Vincent and Ludovic) and came to > the conclusion that it was not core dev team job to provide a specific > flavor like Knowledge Base and that we should focus only on a very > generic one (pretty much XE without the Blog). > > Here are the details: > > = One flavor > > We develop only 1 flavor located in xwiki-platform repository. It's a > generic flavor not targeting any specific use case (the first version > with be XE without the Blog). We will discuss the name in another > thread later, let's call it "Wiki Flavor" for now. > > Of course everyone is free and welcomed to build lots of contrib > flavors which will be proposed when you install XWiki ("Development > Flavor", "Demo Flavor", "Blog Flavor", etc.). > ok for now. Still I see this as in intermediate step until we get more flavors. If it has no particular purpose / use case, I don't think people will use / want it, especially when we will have the Demo or the targeted flavors. When we will have more flavors, I think the core dev team should take care of the Base 'extension' and the Development Flavor. > > = No "Base flavor" > > But platform will provide an extension that can be used as dependency > by various flavors to get "core" UI extensions that we think make > sense in any kind of flavor. > We will need to make some special rules and treat this as API. We need rules to add and remove dependencies and they should go through vote + announcements since they could impact third-party flavors. How many flavors should depend of an extension in order to consider it going in the base? 3-5? Can we add contrib extensions or just platform ones? We kind of previously discussed some of the items several times in the past, but we should document the rules. > > = Demo package > > We currently have a jetty/hsqldb based package in platform which let > you choose which flavor you want. We will show it in the download > page. > > We will add another one with the Wiki Flavor already installed in it > (pretty much like the XE jetty/hsqldb package). Listed on the download > page too. > >From a development / testing perspective I like this packaging, since I don't want to spend several minutes each day installing the flavor. Still I guess the time is kind of the same: spend on downloading or on installing. The difference is that in DW you need to follow the steps. > > We don't maintain exe/jar installers anymore in platform, they die > with XWiki Enterprise. They are a real pain to maintain and we are > actually failing since they don't really work properly everywhere they > are supposed to work. It does not worth the trouble for what is not a > production ready package and it's better anyway to make more clear > XWiki is a server thing. > ok. Thanks, Caty > > WDYT ? > > Thanks, > -- > Thomas Mortagne >
