Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Curation process for extensions on e.x.o

Latest news: * I’ve finished reviewing all extensions on e.x.o * The list of extensions that I consider recommended (there are 26 as of now) is available at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xw iki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/RecommendedExtensions/ * There are some extensions that I don’t know well enough to know if they could be recommended (not sure if they have active support, how well they work on latest XE, etc): http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/ bin/view/Proposal/RecommendedExtensionsSelection To @Extension creators: please review the list and let me know if you have some extensions that you’d like recommended (make sure to check the criteria defined at http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/ bin/view/Proposal/RecommendedExtensionsSelection). Next steps: * Modify the extension sheet to visually see when an extension is recommended * Modify the e.x.o home page to highlight Recommended Extension (see http://markmail.org/message/cr5edm27qcag6n3q ) * Modify EM to add the notion of Recommended * Merge back the new Recommended field in the Repository Application Thanks -Vincent about (whether they should be recommended or not): xtensionsSelection this thread and I’ll do the syncing). defined on xtensionsSelection#HWhatisaRecommendedExtension http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/Rec ommendedExtensions/ e.x.o. (ie the first 60 extensions) and I’ve marked 11 as recommended so far: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/Rec ommendedExtensions/ know what their authors think and whether they’re ok to support them actively. I also don’t know them enough to know of their quality. Feel free to comment on them. Blog+Entries+Macros/ ? lamingoTheme/ e+Netflux+Frontend/ e+Netflux+Backend/ on+Macro/ +LiveTable+Filter+Macro/ +Encrypt+support/ s+Script+Runner/ alyzer+Application/ isteners+Administration/ Script+API Note: we will expose the filter app, should we also expose the API? terizing+API +Headers+Authentication+Adapter +authentication+framework dress+encryptor en+Plugin Note: wrong author!!! UI+Simplifier EM but this mail was only for “e.x.o” FTM (see the subject). wrote: and this causes some problems for our users: latest versions, they are complex to use, they’ve not been updated for a long time and are doing old and deprecated ways of doing things such as not providing an entry in the Applications Panel for example, they’re not just polished, etc) and this causes frustrations for our users. Note that this also reflects on the overall quality of the XWiki project and product. is not fully successful so far because we don’t have enough people voting and because those ratings are not used to display/filter extensions on the Extensions LT or inside XWiki in the EM UI. So we need to continue this effort. snippets which we’ll need to move elsewhere at some point but that becomes less important with the proposal below. suited for the size of our community: curation. Curation is the process of hand-selecting the best extensions and marking them as recommended. The idea would be to list recommended extensions first on the e.x.o home page, in the EM UI in XWiki and even in extension search results. In the EM UI, an idea would also be to have a new “Recommended Extensions” filter in addition to the existing filters (core extensions, installed extensions, etc) and that would be the default filter on the “Add Extensions” UI. for that. We can decide whether we want this just for e.x.o or committed in the Repository app in xwiki-platform. responsibility) of monitoring the apps that are marked “Recommended”, ie. validating that it’s done correctly. XWiki core committers have the authorization to unset an app that was marked a recommended by a community member. recommended since we don’t want everyone who has an account on xwiki.org to start marking apps as recommended. OTOH we want to allow people from the xwiki community to help out. So the way to mark an extension as recommended would be to use the object editor (for now, we can define a better implementation mechanism later on). minimum to be accepted as recommended. These will be our guidelines to avoid conflict of opinions (although there’s always the possibility in which case it’s resolved through a vote): 7.4.x and 8.1) http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDev elopmentBestPractices. Some important examples: technical pages are hidden, extension is registered in the app bar when it makes sense, extension is internationalized (if it makes sense), pages are in xwiki syntax 2.0+. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs