23 May
2016
23 May
'16
11:19 a.m.
+1
Thanks,
Caty
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com
wrote:
> +1 for the curation in general but I'm not a big fan of your proposal
> of displaying only recommended extensions by default in EM (90% of the
> users won't change the filter and will find very few extensions). We
> could make recommended extensions listed first when you have empty
> search input instead and highlight them some way in the extension
> displayer (like some validation icon, a different color, etc.).
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
> > 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
> >
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