Combining several replies in to one... On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:37:30PM +0200, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > On 12-04-16 19:51, Alistair Grant wrote: > > I only have one suggested improvement so far (assuming it doesn't > > already exist and I just haven't found it yet)... When searching for > > packages on SqueakSource / SmalltalkHub etc. it isn't clear to me how > > much confidence I can have in any given package, which is really useful > > if there are multiple packages providing similar functionality. > > One of our community tools for that is a continuous integration server: > http://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution. There several of these configurations > are build and tested, often against several Pharo versions. Several Pharo > users are also already using TravisCI and github for that. > > Stephan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 09:28:07PM +0200, stepharo wrote: > On 12-04-16 19:51, Alistair Grant wrote: > > The Arch Linux model seems pretty good to me. Official packages are in > > the core or extra repositories, which matches what is included in the > > Pharo image. The next level is a community repository, which contains > > packages maintained by Trusted Users. General users can be confident > > that these packages will be kept up to date. The last level is the User > > Repository (AUR), which anyone can contribute to. The AUR includes a > > comment section and vote count, and general users can add or remove > > their vote. > You get a bit of that in the catalog browser. On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 08:06:26AM +0200, stepharo wrote: > Le 13/4/16 06:48, John Pfersich a écrit : > > > > > On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:51, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > The Arch Linux model seems pretty good to me. Official packages are in > > > the core or extra repositories, which matches what is included in the > > > Pharo image. The next level is a community repository, which contains > > > packages maintained by Trusted Users. General users can be confident > > > that these packages will be kept up to date. The last level is the User > > > Repository (AUR), which anyone can contribute to. The AUR includes a > > > comment section and vote count, and general users can add or remove > > > their vote. > > I'd like to see something like this too. > > > > us too > first you have some pharo extras packages > second favor package with tests > third we have been working on quality rules and quality rule false > positive management > so you can run the tests and run the rules > > > now we will start to work on package validation to produce a kind of > "validated" distribution of pharo packages. Thanks to everyone for their replies and welcome messages. It looks like I need to learn more about: * The catalogue browser * Montacello / git integration * Finding the automated tests for a given package Between that and the improvements mentioned above we seem to be in pretty good shape. I still like the idea of a vote button as it gives a rough indication of usefulness / popularity. Of course I should actually contribute some code instead of just pontificating... Thanks! Alistair
