Hello, I uploaded two releases of an extension, and I like to make some comments. There are classified in the order I met them. Most important comments start with a star. Sorry for the duplicate from other users.
- First of all, I want to say that the how-to "Publishing extensions" is really great and very helpful. However, it is a little bit hidden: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/8/84/Publishing_extensions.odt on the discussion page of the wiki. Do you intend to move it on a more visible place, for instance on the home page? - Home page is not very sexy: a lot of text to read (from my humble opinion). It seems that the text was written for a website with both extensions and templates, and not only extensions. - Extension Center page should not select as default last version of LibO, but "Any version", because - there is very few extensions that appear in this case - contributors do not seem to be aware of the importance of the selection of the compatible releases - as there is a bug with the update of the compatible version of a project, selection is incorrect (see farther) - It would be great to be able to store (in a cookie?) my login/password. On my Firefox 6, I have to type it each time. - When I register my project, I have to wait that it is approved. Would it be possible to receive an e-mail saying that it is OK (or not)? Otherwise, I have to check time to time on the website. Moreover there is no clear indication if it will take few seconds, minutes, hours or days. - As a contributor, I would appreciate to have a way to find easily my extensions I already created. May be just after "Submit your extension"? - When selecting license of a release, version numbers of GPL or LGPL are not given. It is far from being a problem for me or subject to discussion, but I though it was an important concern in FLOSS world. * There is an important issue when uploading a file for a release: the name of the file is lost and replace by the "File description". I indicated "Product Package" as suggested, and when people want to download the extension they retrieve a file name "Product Package", which is not recognize on some OS because it has no extension (of file). After some tests to correct the name of the file, I selected "Content" tab of the release, selected file, clicked on "Rename" button, and replaced the "Short name" with filename. It is far from being obvious, or I did not find the right way. - Screen-shot should also be accessible on the project page, and not only on the Extension Center page. - On the description of the extension on Extension Center page, LibO compatible version numbers are in an strange order: 3.3.4 to 3.3, then 3.4 to 3.4.2 * When updating the compatible release numbers of LibO of a release of my extension, it is not updated on the description in the Extension Center. I need to add a new release of my extension to see the right version number * On Extension Center page, filter on version number of compatible LibO is not updated, neither when updating extension release info, nor when adding a new release. Please do not consider my comments as criticisms: the site looks great in general and I really enjoy it. I only hope it could help. Have a good day. Laurent BP ----- LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Comments-on-Extension-website-tp3314746p3314746.html Sent from the Website mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
