Hi Ludovic/everyone, Good start. However we've already started designing the Extension Manager here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ExtensionManager Thus this proposal should be modified to take that into account. IMO your proposal is slightly less advanced in term of our final goal than the Extension Manager one. That said there are common notions so it could be a problem to start implementing them in a not compatible manner. I also think that we could have a quick redesign of code.xwiki.org with better presentation and better XClasses/XObjects but without modifying a single line of code from XE. That would be easy to do and bring some improvements (not all obviously). I'm worried that if someone start implementing your idea right now and quickly we're going to spend time on something that will be dumped when we start working on the Extension Manager. IMO it should be done and taken into account when we start working on the Extension Manager. However as I mentioned ago, I think it's perfectly fine to improve code.xwiki.org right now but with smaller goals. Just a L&F improvement, navigation improvement, etc but without touching XE's code. What do others think? Thanks -Vincent On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:19 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Hi,
I started working on a proposal to redesign code.xwiki.org
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/XWikiExtensionRepositoryRedesign
Please comment and/or modify this document.
The main thing would be to agree that there should be one "unique" repository for anything related to XWiki.
If we agree on that, I would like to start a vote for the name. The name could be I think any combination of a "prefix" or "suffix" or a magical unrelated name.
* Possible Prefix o Add-On o Extension o App o Store o Modules o Plugins * Possible Suffix o Directory o Repository o Store o Catalog
I believe we should make this not feel "technical" but understandable by non technical users.
Any other ideas of prefixes or suffixes or other names before we start a vote ?
Ludovic