Hello
devs,
I think we should
consider adding an area on the DWR site, and SVN repo, for user-contributed DWR
extension libraries, as per the recent discussion about Ext.Direct on the users
mailing list. My suggestion from that thread below:
My opinion is that DWR is an integration product
which benefits a lot from being already prepared for interfacing to other
products and frameworks. My ideal scenario (sans the work of actually setting
it up) is that we have an area in SVN for additional integrations and demos
that are outside the core distribution. This would allow us to have a liberal
policy for letting contributors add new stuff, but wouldn't force us having
the same licensing rules or release cycles.
I imagine the
result would look something like this:
-
core dev team maintains a number of integrations and
demos that are included in the core distribution
-
a larger set of contributors add stuff to the new
"extras" area and these projects are built to separate jar files (or
similar)
-
we have some kind of voting before adding a new project
to the extras area
-
if possible administration-wise, any "extras" demo
jar files could be deployed as separate apps on the same appserver as
running DWR's core demos
-
in DWR docs we
-
maintain a list of contributed integrations
with information on how stable/up-to-date they are, who is
maintaining, compat with different DWR versions etc
-
link to each sub-project's doc or demo pages in the
extras area
- integrations in core distribution should be actively maintained, when
they are not they should move out to the "extras" area
- I'm expecting ~10 projects. If in reality it becomes 100, I think we
should think about another solution... ;-)
I thought we could discuss this a little, and then
end the discussion with a vote.
1) Is this philosophically a good or bad idea? (Ie,
is it good or bad for DWR?)
2) Is this in practice a good or bad idea? (Ie,
will it mean an unwanted workload that will take the focus from more important
stuff?)
3) What precedents can we look at? (Dojo's dojox, JQuery
plugins, ...?)
4) What should we name this area? (DWR extras, DWRX, DWR
contributions, ...?)
5) How could
we best separate the "extras" area from core in SVN? (Folder in same
SVN tree or separate SVN tree, should "extras" commiters have rights in core,
..?)
Best regards
Mike
