(Cross posted from http://drupal.org/node/2099351 because Angie said I could/should. This isn't a core issue, but it's an upgrade to D8 issue. We are talking about tackling automatic code upgrades.)
If the community agrees with the plan. It will be a few weeks or a more before I'm ready to ask people to write upgrades. But before we get there, in general, does this sound like a good plan or not? Please provide feedback on the d.o issue http://drupal.org/node/2099351.
Summary:
This year I'd like to bring the Coder projects (Review, Upgrade, Drush, Grammer Parser, PHP CodeSniffer, etc) together in an integrated way. I propose that we re-organize the project into a Drush plugin that is Drupal version agnostic and keep the current project as only a UI module. Here are the specifics:
- The Drush plugin will be a new Drupal module (not on github but hosted on Drupal) and we'll maintain all of the code in the master branch.
- The Drush plugin will get a new upgrade command, yet to be designed, possibly based on Coder Upgrade or ideas from Coder Upgrade, or possibly based on https://github.com/fabpot/PHP-CS-Fixer and Twigify.
- The Drush plugin will contain all of the review rules, and the UI will need to call the plugin as a library that returns results.
- In 7.x, we'll start a 3.x branch of coder and this will be the UI module. It will still be called Coder Review in 7.x. 3.x Coder Review will use Drush Coder as a library and will get it's results from that library. Coder Upgrade will stay unchanged.
- Coder Upgrade will be removed in 8.x, and Coder Review will just become Coder again. Coder Upgrade functionality will be in Coder Drush and the old module won't be necessary anymore. We're leaving it in the 7.x branch for people still using the 6.x to 7.x upgrades. Coder Review, which is just the UI portion, now will become just coder.module.
- I hope that the Drush plugin upgrade command will alleviate the need or desire to continue with Coder Upgrade. (But if we mostly agree on this path and we go down this road, and someone disagrees, they are free to continue Coder Upgrade as a separate project.)