I see we also have an 'Authenticator' type.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> So what I find confusing is that we have a "project" - "type" and
a
> "project" - "category".
>
> We could let's say have types like: "project", "snippet",
"extension",
> etc.
> But we would need 'dynamic' categories. Only when choosing the type
> extension, the categories should be populated listing: application, macro,
> colortheme, skin, etc.
>
> And to be honest on the e.x.o homepage we should list just extension type.
> And in that case I don't know how people would find snippet or project.
>
> So maybe an idea would be to have separate subwikis for:
>
snippets.xwiki.org and
projects.xwiki.org (but this would need a separate
> application showing if the project is active, components, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> valicac(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> I know it's a bit problematic since we use e.x.o also as a documentation
>> place, not just for installable things, so I'm not sure what is the best
>> thing to do.
>>
>> With the 'project' logic we would need to mark also "XWiki
Office",
>> "XWiki Eclipse", etc. as having the "project" category.
>>
>> Also "Skins" are not installable with EM.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caty
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
>> valicac(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I also didn't understood what 'Project' is about and means.
>>>
>>> To be honest I don't think e.x.o is the right place for it.
>>> IMO we should keep e.x.o just for installable extensions that can be
>>> used with Extension Manager.
>>>
>>> From what I remember we will want to remove snippets from e.x.o, so not
>>> sure why we should add now the concept of 'project'.
>>>
>>> Our projects are listed in
>>>
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Forge
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Caty
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
>>
wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:20, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net
wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:00, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
>>>
wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
>>>
wrote:
>>>> >>> Hi Thomas,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> On 06 Jun 2016, at 10:44, Thomas Mortagne <
>>>> thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com
wrote:
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Hi xwikiers,
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> I just introduced a "Project" extension type
on
>>>>
http://extensions.xwiki.org.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> I needed a place to put a few words about OpenId Connect
in
>>>> general,
>>>> >>>> the goal of the project, the various modules and what is
common
>>>> >>>> between them, etc. It's also the parent space of the
actual
>>>> >>>> extensions. It does not shows up in Extension Manager of
course.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> See
>>>>
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/OpenID+Connect/
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> WDYT ?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> As a user I don’t think I’ll understand what “Project”
means.
>>>> Actually even as a dev, I don’t really. I guess you mean it as a
container
>>>> for other extensions.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> All those extensions are part of the same project, released
together,
>>>> >> have the same bug tracker et source repository so "even as
a dev, I
>>>> >> don’t really" might be a little bit exaggerated :)
>>>> >
>>>> > The reason I said project wasn’t clear even for devs is because exo
>>>> is not about development of extensions; it’s about using binaries.
>>>> >
>>>> > In a dev context project makes sense but in a runtime context, it
>>>> doesn’t really. You don’t install a project and you don’t consider
binaries
>>>> to be a project. The goal of a project is to create something; it’s a
work
>>>> in progress.
>>>> >
>>>> > You do install a Product so that might be a better word but it
looks
>>>> too big.
>>>> >
>>>> > I still find “Group” the best work proposed so far.
>>>>
>>>> s/work/word ;)
>>>>
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Let’s see what others think.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> > -Vincent
>>>> >
>>>> >> I think “Group” would make more sense.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "Group" could be usefull for other use cases but
it's really not
>>>> >> strong enough here. The goal is not to group some random
independent
>>>> >> extensions but to document a project which have a goal and
produced
>>>> >> various installable extensions to achieve this goal.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> WDYT?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> In any case, we need a legend somewhere to explain the
types.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thanks
>>>> >>> -Vincent
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> Thomas Mortagne
>>>>
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