[RESULTS] [VOTE] jetspeed-2 svn restructure to support separate lifecycle for the j2-admin application (and others)

[Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>]

+1 - 9 (all binding)
  0 - 0
-1 - 0

The svn restructuring and a separate lifecycle for j2-admin has been accepted.

Everyone thanks a lot for this full support!

I'll start on the svn restructuring shorty and request a new JIRA project key for J2-ADMIN.

Regards,

Ate

Ate Douma wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> The last months there have been several discussions about moving the 
> j2-admin portlet application out of the main jetspeed-2 trunk, such that 
> it can be
> maintained and managed as a separate release artifact.
> 
> The primary reasoning behind this is that many integrators and other 
> custom portal developers have separate usages for the Jetspeed Portal as 
> base product and
>  sometimes don't need j2-admin or otherwise need to extend it to their 
> own needs.
> 
> Additionally, the j2-admin application by itself only depends on the 
> jetspeed-api and is not (and/or should not) be directly tied to the core 
> implementation of
> the portal. As such, it doesn't need to be part of the core portal 
> release cycle and could benefit greatly of a release cycle of its own. 
> Enhancements and
> bugfixes to j2-admin can then be released independently of the portal 
> release cycle and thus won't have to wait until a new version of the 
> portal is ready.
> 
> To better facilitate these needs I'm proposing the following root 
> jetspeed-2 svn restructuring:
> 
> 1) create (at least) the following new root svn folder: 
> /portal/jetspeed-2/portal
> 2) move the current trunk, branches and tags folders under this new root 
> portal folder
> 3) promote (move) the current trunk/applications folder as a new root 
> svn folder: /portal/jetspeed-2/applications
> 4) create (at least) new standard svn "management" folders trunk, 
> branches and tags under /portal/applications/j2-admin/
> 5) move all other existing files and subfolders of the j2-admin folder 
> under its new trunk folder
> 
> After these steps, the new jetspeed-2 svn structure will look like this:
> 
> /portals/jetspeed-2
>   /applications
>     /demo
>     /gems
>     /j2-admin
>       /branches
>       /tags
>       /trunk
>     /rss
>  /portal
>    /branches
>    /tags
>    /trunk
> 
> Concerning the other applications folders, demo, gems and rss: we are 
> currently discussing (in the PMC) an additional restructuring which 
> might result in these
> to be moved elsewhere shortly too. But as no final decision has been 
> made yet, until then we will keep them in the proposed location.
> 
> In addition to the svn restructure, we will also need a new JIRA project 
> for j2-admin to be able to properly maintain and track its own lifecycle 
> and maintenance.
> Proposed JIRA project key: J2-ADMIN.
> 
> Besides these changes, we will have to decide how to manage our website 
> maintenance in the future. Until the last release 2.1.3, all the website 
> documentation
> was generated with maven-1. As we are in the process of replacing the 
> maven-1 build system with a brand new maven-2 one, we will have to setup 
> our website
> generation anew anyway. The current idea is to keep generating the main 
> site documentation from within the (new) portal sub project, and 
> integrate the separate
> j2-admin documentation within that using the maven-2 site plugin which 
> is supposed to be able to do so.
> This hasn't been tested out yet, but as many other Apache projects have 
> a similar svn structure with multiple independently released artifacts, 
> we will find a
> way to do so. One possibility or requirement might be to add an 
> additional root "site" folder to host a master site project configuration.
> 
> Finally, once we have this new svn structure in place, setting up 
> additional (portal independent) root folders and projects will become 
> easy to do as well.
> Envisioned already are a maven-2 master pom project and a general maven 
> plugins project.
> 
> But for now, the issue at hand is the restructuring as outlined above.
> 
> So please vote:
> 
> [ ] +1 Yes, perform the svn restructuring and create new JIRA project 
> J2-ADMIN
> [ ]  0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 No, do not restructure svn as outlined. Provide reasons and 
> alternatives.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ate
> 
> 
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