[jboss-as7-dev] Thoughts on minor re-org of source tree

[Jason Greene]

I think you are misreading his post. He is talking about differentiating a subsystem from core components with is just improving code organization nothing more. 

BTW we have quite a bit of "system docs" in wikis and javadoc.

On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Scott Marlow <smarlow at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On 03/17/2011 06:51 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that the source tree be reorganized as follows:
>> 
>> 1. Create a new module called "subsystems" with its own parent POM.
>> 2. Move all subsystems and their support modules into this directory.
>> 
>> This will make modules easier to find and also will let us apply policy
>> to subsystems, which may come in handy, and also lets us rebuild just
>> subsystems, which may also come in handy.
> 
> I would like to break the reasons into separate items:
> 
> 1.  Make modules easier to find.
> 
> 2.  Applying policy to subsytems.
> 
> 3.  Rebuilding just subsystems.
> 
> For (1), I think the current source tree organization is easy enough (so 
> don't burn the time to change it now).  Are people complaining that they 
> cannot find modules?
> 
> What kind of policies (2) do we need to handle at the per subsystem 
> level?  I assume you have some specific policies in mind as we have 
> typically only built infrastructure that we need.  It must be for some 
> top secret project that you cannot mention here.  I'm just not buying 
> the futuristic (we might need it in the future) view here.  I have to 
> ask who you really are and what you did with David?  ;-)
> 
> I think that having separate projects (3) allowed us to build only the 
> specific project but they increase the number of moving parts in the 
> system.
> 
> My short alternative list to improve things :-):
> 
> 4. Write system documentation.
> 
> 5. Consider a way to make the AS7 commit process more scalable (e.g. 
> more lieutenants committing changes).
> 
> 
>> 
>> I bring it up on the list because of the potential conflicts introduced,
>> so people can sync up and be ready if we go ahead with it.
>> 
> 
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