On 18/08/16 21:00, Vincent Massol wrote:
ok I’ve started.
3 things:
* I’ve started defining what we mean by a recommended app, see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/RecommendedExtensions/
* I’ve processed the first 2 pages of the LT on the home page of e.x.o. (ie the
first 60 extensions) and I’ve marked 11 as recommended so far:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/RecommendedExtensions/
* I’m hesitating for the following extensions. Specifically I need to know what
their authors think and whether they’re ok to support them actively. I also
don’t know them enough to know of their quality. Feel free to comment on them.
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Recent+Blog+Entries+Macros/
?
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/SunkenFlamingoTheme/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RtForm/
experimental
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Realtime+Netflux+Frontend/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Realtime+Netflux+Backend/
middleware, not something people should see
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XQuiz/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Condition+Macro/
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Suggest+LiveTable+Filter+Macro/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Let%27s+Encrypt+support/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Derzelas+Script+Runner/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XCarousel/
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Wiki+Analyzer+Application/
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Event+Listeners+Administration/
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Script+API Note:
we will expose the filter app, should we also expose the API?
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/ZoneEdit+Macro
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/SVG+Rasterizing+API
-
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Trusted+Headers+Authentication+Adapter
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http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Trusted+authentication+framework
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Mail+address+encryptor
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XWikiTube
experimental
Thanks,
Caleb
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XFF+Maven+Plugin Note:
wrong author!!!
- http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Rights+UI+Simplifier
Thanks
-Vincent
The result is here:
On 18 Aug 2016, at 19:36, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
I’m starting the work on this. BTW several of you have replied about EM but
this mail was only for “e.x.o” FTM (see the subject).
The idea is to implement something similar to what Caty proposed at
http://markmail.org/message/cr5edm27qcag6n3q
I’m starting the work.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 23 May 2016, at 10:39, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPractices.
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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