2 Nov
2009
2 Nov
'09
9:50 p.m.
Hi Vincent,
On 11/2/09 9:17 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
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).
Agreed.
Note that this is almost what's Ludovic proposal is about, except the
final "Getting Updates about new applications" part.
A "degraded" version of this feature could be email / RSS notifications
(users manage their list of "installed extensions", and code.xwiki.org
sends email about each new update, etc.).
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.
I agree, but again, that's only excluding "getting updates about
applications right into XE" part, all the rest stands valid to me, when
confronted to this point.
Jerome.
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
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