[xwiki-devs] Location for extensions ideas
Hi xwikiers, I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then. I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else. I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on. I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org WDYT ? Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well. -- Thomas Mortagne
We could install the Ideas app somewhere on design.xwiki.org and make it exclusive for listing Extensions ideas. Thanks, Caty On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:35 AM Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
-- Thomas Mortagne
We also have the "Idea" issue type in Jira so I don't think we need a dedicated project just for that. It would be best to find the existing project that your idea could extend, otherwise the "XWIKI" (platform) project is still a good fit, IMO, since we should then better determine if the feature should be a core/platform feature or if it should best be suited in its own separate extension. It's easy to build a filter for all the ideas from all the projects we have on Jira. Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:31 PM Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote:
We could install the Ideas app somewhere on design.xwiki.org and make it exclusive for listing Extensions ideas. Thanks, Caty
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:35 AM Thomas Mortagne < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
-- Thomas Mortagne
Hi Thomas and devs,
On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them out when they’re implemented/available (see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros). Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it. I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s tasked for implementation. Thanks -Vincent
-- Thomas Mortagne
On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:21, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas and devs,
On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them out when they’re implemented/available (see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros).
Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it.
I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s tasked for implementation.
After more thoughts I’m ok with a new jira project for this since: 1) It allows moving jira issues around jira projects. Someone creates a jira issue in XWiki for something that shouldn’t be part of XS and we can move it. Example: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16419 2) When (and if) the time comes for implementation, the issue can be moved to the right project 3) Since it would be a new jira project, it wouldn’t mess up the other jira projects. To answer Edy’s point, if the idea is about XS then it should continue to go in XWIKI jira project. This is for new extension ideas. WDYT? If ok, I can create it tomorrow. Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
-- Thomas Mortagne
Ideally we should go over the IDEAS issues already reported and see which one would need to go in this new project. IMO there is little benefit we can get from this CEIDEA project (I would have liked it to be EXOIDEA as naming). It might end up to be the "place where ideas go to die". The only use case indeed are the hackatons and GSOC projects. But I like that is separate from the other issues and, being in JIRA, it will be easy to reference and move them. I think it should be documented somewhere that this place exists (depending if we want to encourage it or just use it as a way to clean the XWIKI project). Maybe contrib homepage? Thanks, Caty On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:36 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:21, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas and devs,
On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them out when they’re implemented/available (see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros).
Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it.
I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s tasked for implementation.
After more thoughts I’m ok with a new jira project for this since: 1) It allows moving jira issues around jira projects. Someone creates a jira issue in XWiki for something that shouldn’t be part of XS and we can move it. Example: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16419 2) When (and if) the time comes for implementation, the issue can be moved to the right project 3) Since it would be a new jira project, it wouldn’t mess up the other jira projects.
To answer Edy’s point, if the idea is about XS then it should continue to go in XWIKI jira project. This is for new extension ideas.
WDYT?
If ok, I can create it tomorrow.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
-- Thomas Mortagne
Hi Caty,
On 23 May 2019, at 12:38, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote:
Ideally we should go over the IDEAS issues already reported and see which one would need to go in this new project.
Yep.
IMO there is little benefit we can get from this CEIDEA project
(I would have liked it to be EXOIDEA as naming).
Sure, Done!
It might end up to be the "place where ideas go to die”.
Yes, that’s the idea ;) (pun intended). It’s not to die, it’s to record ideas and give the ability for anyone to comment on them. Sure, the majority of them won’t be implemented but that’s the same as saying that its useful to record ideas and I don’t agree with this statement. It can create discussions (in the issue) and provide ideas for GSOCers or others to take up some ideas. It’s also a way to record and give the paternity of the idea to someone. It’s also answers whatever one in the community wants: when they have an idea, where do they report it? If you tell them, just keep it in your head, that’s not very useful nor positive.
The only use case indeed are the hackatons and GSOC projects. But I like that is separate from the other issues and, being in JIRA, it will be easy to reference and move them.
Yes that’s a good idea. We could create either a component in this project for GSOC ideas or a jira label.
I think it should be documented somewhere that this place exists (depending if we want to encourage it or just use it as a way to clean the XWIKI project). Maybe contrib homepage?
I don’t think it’s very important since we would be the one moving them but yes it’s better to document it somewhere. 2 places comes to mind: * Contrib home page * Contributing page: https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:36 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:21, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas and devs,
On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them out when they’re implemented/available (see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros).
Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it.
I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s tasked for implementation.
After more thoughts I’m ok with a new jira project for this since: 1) It allows moving jira issues around jira projects. Someone creates a jira issue in XWiki for something that shouldn’t be part of XS and we can move it. Example: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16419 2) When (and if) the time comes for implementation, the issue can be moved to the right project 3) Since it would be a new jira project, it wouldn’t mess up the other jira projects.
To answer Edy’s point, if the idea is about XS then it should continue to go in XWIKI jira project. This is for new extension ideas.
WDYT?
If ok, I can create it tomorrow.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
-- Thomas Mortagne
On 23 May 2019, at 12:54, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 23 May 2019, at 12:38, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote:
Ideally we should go over the IDEAS issues already reported and see which one would need to go in this new project.
Yep.
IMO there is little benefit we can get from this CEIDEA project
(I would have liked it to be EXOIDEA as naming).
Sure, Done!
It might end up to be the "place where ideas go to die”.
Yes, that’s the idea ;) (pun intended).
It’s not to die, it’s to record ideas and give the ability for anyone to comment on them. Sure, the majority of them won’t be implemented but that’s the same as saying that its useful to record ideas
^^^not useful -Vincent
and I don’t agree with this statement. It can create discussions (in the issue) and provide ideas for GSOCers or others to take up some ideas. It’s also a way to record and give the paternity of the idea to someone. It’s also answers whatever one in the community wants: when they have an idea, where do they report it? If you tell them, just keep it in your head, that’s not very useful nor positive.
The only use case indeed are the hackatons and GSOC projects. But I like that is separate from the other issues and, being in JIRA, it will be easy to reference and move them.
Yes that’s a good idea. We could create either a component in this project for GSOC ideas or a jira label.
I think it should be documented somewhere that this place exists (depending if we want to encourage it or just use it as a way to clean the XWIKI project). Maybe contrib homepage?
I don’t think it’s very important since we would be the one moving them but yes it’s better to document it somewhere. 2 places comes to mind: * Contrib home page * Contributing page: https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:36 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:21, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas and devs,
On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi xwikiers,
I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more something to link to from somewhere else.
I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching for something interesting to work on.
I was thinking about the following alternatives: * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just that it's a good name) * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
WDYT ?
Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to think about a good project id) where you put description and close it when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less work and should do the job well.
For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them out when they’re implemented/available (see https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros).
Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it.
I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s tasked for implementation.
After more thoughts I’m ok with a new jira project for this since: 1) It allows moving jira issues around jira projects. Someone creates a jira issue in XWiki for something that shouldn’t be part of XS and we can move it. Example: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16419 2) When (and if) the time comes for implementation, the issue can be moved to the right project 3) Since it would be a new jira project, it wouldn’t mess up the other jira projects.
To answer Edy’s point, if the idea is about XS then it should continue to go in XWIKI jira project. This is for new extension ideas.
WDYT?
If ok, I can create it tomorrow.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
-- Thomas Mortagne
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