Brynn,
Thank you for your always detailed and very well explained email.
Allow me one silly question, please: is it possible for us to announce the
gallery in the main inkscape website so the inkscape extension developers
can publish them in our gallery?
Let me know if I missed anything.
--Victor Westmann
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:41 PM, brynn <br...@frii.com> wrote:
> Short answer:
>
> It will be different in 2 ways. 1 - It will include all known extensions,
> and 2 - it will only be links to download pages, not any actual
> extensions. Here's the page, but it only has tutorials and a couple of
> books on it now: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php.
>
> As far as I understand, you don't have to host your extensions in the
> gallery. If you prefer to use a repo like github, you can just put the link
> to it in your gallery posting. (But for newbies, it would be nice to
> include specific info about exactly what to download. I'm not exactly a
> newbie, but I still get confused when I have to go to github to download
> something.)
>
> I think the gallery category *could be* the main distribution channel.
> But I'm not sure how that could be controlled. Once it becomes known more
> widely, I would guess that most extensions will be found there. But I
> think extensions will always be scattered around, to some extent.
>
> Long answer:
> Currently external Inkscape extensions are scattered far and wide across
> the internet. By my count, that is approximately (roughly) 300
> extensions! A few of us are working on contacting as many extension
> authors as we can, and informing them about the gallery, which might not
> have even existed, when they created their extensions.
>
> But when I say "a few", really only one person is doing that work, with me
> and another person (Maren) providing support when we can. The work is
> going very slow, as far as I can tell. I think the reason it's going so
> slow, is that person (Mark Shafer) (I probably mispelled the last name) is
> also attempting to bring older extensions up to date, at the same time. If
> we were to focus only on contacting the authors, it would probably go
> faster. This is our working page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/
> index.php/Inkscape_Extensions.
>
> Between that page, the original Extensions Repository (which was only
> sparsely used by extension authors, afaict) (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki
> /index.php/Extension_repository), and the gallery's extensions category (
> https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=extension/), that's all the extensions
> we know of.
>
> I just want to have sort of a master list of extensions, because as I
> provide support for Inkscape (primarily in forums) I'm sick and tired of
> searching hither and yon to help users find extensions. Plus, having such
> a list will allow users to search on their own.
>
> If someday, we finally have all the external extensions in the gallery,
> I'll happily delete my list of links (to download pages). I'm not sure if
> that would ever happen, but I'd be happy if it did.
>
> My desire to put out a call for testers will benefit both the
> comprehensive list I'm making, as well as the gallery category. I'm also
> getting tired of explaining to people who are searching for extensions,
> that 'here are all our extensions, but we have no idea which ones work,
> which version they work with, or on which systems'. So even when we have
> them all in one place, we'll still be reciting the same lines, unless we
> can gather that info about them.
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Maximilian Gaukler
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:39 PM
> To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] extension testers needed
>
>
> Hi brynn,
>
> I may have missed something - in what way is your extension page
> different from the extension gallery? Is it only for extensions not
> listed in the gallery?
> https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=extension/
>
> Do you have a link to your page?
>
> Anyway, I'd like to get an overview of existing extensions out there in
> the web, especially the ones that do similar work to the ones I am
> contributing to.
>
> Regarding the gallery:
>
> Is there a way to add an extension to the gallery without uploading a
> zip file? I would like to link only to github, as I don't like having to
> reupload it for every new version: That's duplicate work and tends to be
> forgotten, especially if the inkscape website is not the main
> distribution channel.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Max
>
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