PhotoGallery plugin

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Since the recent changes to the PhotoGallery plugin
to gain the ability to automatically generate the
thumbnail variants, it cannot now be used with
an existing Gallery-using site.

So now one would need to use an older version of
the Gallery plugin. However we forgot to deploy
it and increment the version number prior to
this change.

To get around this, i have updated back to an older
revision of trunk and 'ant release' the plugin as ...-0.2.zip
Then come back to head and incremented the version
number once more. Hopefully that is what is needed.

-David

Re: PhotoGallery plugin

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Tim Williams wrote:
> David Crossley wrote:
> > Since the recent changes to the PhotoGallery plugin
> > to gain the ability to automatically generate the
> > thumbnail variants, it cannot now be used with
> > an existing Gallery-using site.
> >
> > So now one would need to use an older version of
> > the Gallery plugin. However we forgot to deploy
> > it and increment the version number prior to
> > this change.
> >
> > To get around this, i have updated back to an older
> > revision of trunk and 'ant release' the plugin as ...-0.2.zip
> > Then come back to head and incremented the version
> > number once more. Hopefully that is what is needed.
> 
> Sorry David.  I could look into making the plugin backwards compatible
> if that's desired?

If possible then that is good for users.
Otherwise we need to say in the plugin's
status.xml or perhaps an upgrading doc
what they need to change.

I took the option of just specifying an old
version of the plugin until i can help with
the trunk dev version.

The main part of my message was to say that
we all need to be more careful to "release"
a plugin and change version numbers if we
radically change its behaviour. We have all
forgotten this at times.

There are some basic notes:
http://forrest.apache.org/docs/dev/howto/howto-buildPlugin.html#release
and we need to merge the notes from
plugins/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt

-David

Re: PhotoGallery plugin

[Tim Williams <wi...@gmail.com>]

On 2/24/06, David Crossley <cr...@apache.org> wrote:
> Since the recent changes to the PhotoGallery plugin
> to gain the ability to automatically generate the
> thumbnail variants, it cannot now be used with
> an existing Gallery-using site.
>
> So now one would need to use an older version of
> the Gallery plugin. However we forgot to deploy
> it and increment the version number prior to
> this change.
>
> To get around this, i have updated back to an older
> revision of trunk and 'ant release' the plugin as ...-0.2.zip
> Then come back to head and incremented the version
> number once more. Hopefully that is what is needed.
>
> -David

Sorry David.  I could look into making the plugin backwards compatible
if that's desired?

--tim