Re: Merging with XWiki and WikiModel

[Hervé BOUTEMY <he...@free.fr>]

I'm cross-posting this between Doxia and Maven dev lists, because this has 
both interests.

Le samedi 31 janvier 2009, Jason van Zyl a écrit :
> On 30-Jan-09, at 3:04 PM, Vincent Siveton wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > 2009/1/29 Jason van Zyl <ja...@maven.org>:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> I've been looking at reporting in Maven 3.x and I've been following
> >> the work
> >> that Vincent Massol has been doing over at XWiki where he has made
> >> some
> >> attempts at melding Doxia, the XWiki rendering engine, and
> >> WikiModel. You
> >> can see the proposal here:
> >>
> >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/RenderingEngineConvergence
> >>
> >> I am looking to remove the Doxia dependency from Maven 3.x so that
> >> reporting
> >> is removed from core and just becomes another set of components.
> >> Having
> >
> > I definitely agree to decouple Maven from Doxia, or conversely :)
> > We actually have a lot of problems due to this coupling, see MNG-3402.
> >
> >> Doxia coupled to Maven is not very nice so in the next couple
> >> releases of
> >> the Maven 3.x alphas the hard dependency on Doxia will be removed.
> >> This will
> >> open the door for anyone who wants to add a different mechanism.
> >> Doxia
> >> reports will still work, I'm not planning on removing the
> >> functionality just
> >> unbinding it from the core. But that opens the door for something
> >> new!
> >
> > Some questions to clarify what you have in mind:
> > - how do you plan to integrate reporting concretely to Maven 3?
>
> As a completely separate execution environment. So the plugin manager
> in 3.x will only deal with build plugins. Then a separate plugin
> manager can be created for Doxia based reports and those will map to
> the current reporting element. Then I would like to create another
> execution environment for a more data centric report model.
the idea is interesting.
Is there something somewhere on this? How can I help?
The key plugin is maven-site-plugin: a new branch?

Regards,

Hervé

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