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

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com A "Recommended Extensions" filter (to show *only* recommended extensions) makes sense, but as Thomas said, I wouldn't select it by default (at least for now, as we won't have that many recommended extensions at the beginning). I would display all extensions by default, making sure that recommended extensions are given priority by the search (boost factor). +1 for curation otherwise. Thanks, Marius > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> > > Hi devs, > > > > We have a lot of entries on extensions.xwiki.org (869 as of today) and > this causes some problems for our users: > > > > P1) A lot of them are not of good quality (they don’t work with the > 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. > > > > P2) It’s hard for users to locate good extensions among the rest. > > > > We’ve started addressing P1) by introducing ratings on e.x.o. This 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. > > > > Note that this proposal is not addressing non-extensions such as > snippets which we’ll need to move elsewhere at some point but that becomes > less important with the proposal below. > > > > Proposal > > ======= > > > > I’d like to propose an additional strategy that, IMO, is better 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. > > > > I propose to add a “Recommended” xproperty in the Repository app for > that. We can decide whether we want this just for e.x.o or committed in the > Repository app in xwiki-platform. > > > > Then we need to decide about the curation process: > > > > * The XWiki core committers are in charge (i.e. have the 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. > > * We wouldn’t offer a simple way in the UI to mark an extension as > 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). > > * We define some basic rules that extensions need to follow at 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): > > - Need to work on LTS + latest XWiki version (ie. ATM that would be > 7.4.x and 8.1) > > - Need to present a polished aspect and be easily usable > > - Need to follow most of the best practices defined on > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPra…. > 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+. > > > > WDYT? > > > > I’m willing to help do the work and mark extensions as recommended. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > devs(a)xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >