On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Vincent, > > I'm willing to help, as much as my bandwith allows :) Great! See below > Le 9 oct. 2013 16:29, "Vincent Massol" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Hi developers/contributors, >> >> We have quite a lot of applications on http://extensions.xwiki.org >> >> However several haven't been updated for a very long time even though > XWiki has made progress. >> >> I can think of 3 areas where help would be appreciated: >> >> * Some apps have wiki pages in XWiki Syntax 1.0 version. Those need to be > upgraded to XWiki Syntax 2.1. >> * Some apps don't register themselves in the Applications Panel. To > change that just need to create a new page with the proper XObject. You can > copy the Blog.ApplicationsPanelEntry page to this app's space and edit it. >> * Some apps don't automatically register translations and force the user > to manually add documentation resource bundle in the Administration. > There's now a better way which is to add an object of type > XWiki.TranslationDocumentClass >> >> Example of app that would need an update: >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Polls+Application >> >> So who's willing to help? :) >> >> Note that the best strategy is to ensure that the application has a git > repo on https://github.com/organizations/xwiki-contrib (there should be a > Source button on the app page on extensions.xwiki.org too). If not, then > let me know by answering this email and I'll create it for you and give you > access so that you can make changes there. FYI the full process is > documented at http://contrib.xwiki.org and I can help you with that. > > To be clear, does that mean that you take care of creating the repo AND > populating it with original sources, or that we should do it ? > Shouldn't this be done by or with authorization from the original extension > author ? I can create the repo and if you can populate it then all the better :) You can ask the original author (always better) but if you don't change the license and the license allows it you don't really need to ask. > I would add that ideally extensions should be published to a maven repo (so > others can depend on them), but maybe that's too much for the cleaning > activity you propose... (and could be considered in a second step for a set > of extensions) Sure Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
