Re: [xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] XWiki Flavors

Hi, Just sharing a bit my ideas iteration process. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: Last week I was talking about the Flavor Creator: My big problem with Flavors is that we are lacking an extensions classification. We had types like applications, skins, colorthemes, etc. but now it's just XARs and JARs. We have a tag cloud, but that is a folksonomy and doesn't have 'standard' categories. When you look at an extension you may not understand it's purpose and usage use case. I've started to categorize our extensions and try to define types of flavors and use cases, but I'm kind of running in circles. But what is clear to me is that we will need some predefined categories and that the Flavor Creator is a must (mainly because we don't have a finite set of extensions and use cases that we are managing). I also thought a bit about the process of integrating gamification in our Extensions Repository (e.x.o) and also a way to encourage users to create Flavors (and also extensions in general). First of all I've revised the wireframe http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Flavours/flavo… with http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Flavours/flavo… The main differences is that first you need to select your extensions and then you can decide what the Flavor will be called and what it will be the use case. The Focus (productivity, Collaboration, Development) part is interesting and could reflect your Flavor orientation (but for this we would need the classification system I was talking about). For me for example would be fun to try to create Flavors 100% with one Focus, or to make balanced Flavors, or whatever. Regarding the Flavor creation process I imagined that it could take place locally, but also someone could do it from e.x.o. http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Flavours/profi… You could receive points for creating, rating, documenting extensions and Flavors. We talked a couple of times about Reputation systems http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Activity+Ranking+Appli… and also we had some work integrated in Wiki 3.0 project. Of course we could also think about generic solutions, but my wireframes are related mostly to Flavors and e.x.o. For example, having contributors ranking information we could represent this information on the e.x.o. homepage along with extensions statistics http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Flavours/repos… These are some ideas related more or less to Flavors and how our Extensions Repository could look like and be organized. Thanks, Caty