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

Update: we now have 29 recommended extensions on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/ RecommendedExtensions/ I think it’s a good start and I’m going to work with Caty to make it visible on the home page of e.x.o. Please reply quickly if you don’t agree :) Then we can iterate if you think some other extensions should be recommended. In term of process, for now, could you please avoid directly changing the recommended status for extensions on e.x.o and instead contact me or reply to this thread? (I’d like to keep some control on that FTM since this is new). Thanks -Vincent 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. 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. 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. that. We can decide whether we want this just for e.x.o or committed in the Repository app in xwiki-platform. 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). 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/ ApplicationDevelopmentBestPractices. 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