So what I find confusing is that we have a "project" - "type" and a "project" - "category". We could let's say have types like: "project", "snippet", "extension", etc. But we would need 'dynamic' categories. Only when choosing the type extension, the categories should be populated listing: application, macro, colortheme, skin, etc. And to be honest on the e.x.o homepage we should list just extension type. And in that case I don't know how people would find snippet or project. So maybe an idea would be to have separate subwikis for: snippets.xwiki.org and projects.xwiki.org (but this would need a separate application showing if the project is active, components, etc.) Thanks, Caty On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < valicac@gmail.com> wrote:
I know it's a bit problematic since we use e.x.o also as a documentation place, not just for installable things, so I'm not sure what is the best thing to do.
With the 'project' logic we would need to mark also "XWiki Office", "XWiki Eclipse", etc. as having the "project" category.
Also "Skins" are not installable with EM.
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < valicac@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I also didn't understood what 'Project' is about and means.
To be honest I don't think e.x.o is the right place for it. IMO we should keep e.x.o just for installable extensions that can be used with Extension Manager.
From what I remember we will want to remove snippets from e.x.o, so not sure why we should add now the concept of 'project'.
Our projects are listed in http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Forge
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:20, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:00, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net>
wrote:
Hi Thomas,
> On 06 Jun 2016, at 10:44, Thomas Mortagne < thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com> wrote: > > Hi xwikiers, > > I just introduced a "Project" extension type on http://extensions.xwiki.org. > > I needed a place to put a few words about OpenId Connect in general, > the goal of the project, the various modules and what is common > between them, etc. It's also the parent space of the actual > extensions. It does not shows up in Extension Manager of course. > > See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/OpenID+Connect/ > > WDYT ?
As a user I don’t think I’ll understand what “Project” means. Actually even as a dev, I don’t really. I guess you mean it as a container for other extensions.
All those extensions are part of the same project, released together, have the same bug tracker et source repository so "even as a dev, I don’t really" might be a little bit exaggerated :)
The reason I said project wasn’t clear even for devs is because exo is not about development of extensions; it’s about using binaries.
In a dev context project makes sense but in a runtime context, it doesn’t really. You don’t install a project and you don’t consider binaries to be a project. The goal of a project is to create something; it’s a work in progress.
You do install a Product so that might be a better word but it looks too big.
I still find “Group” the best work proposed so far.
s/work/word ;)
-Vincent
Let’s see what others think.
Thanks -Vincent
I think “Group” would make more sense.
"Group" could be usefull for other use cases but it's really not strong enough here. The goal is not to group some random independent extensions but to document a project which have a goal and produced various installable extensions to achieve this goal.
WDYT?
In any case, we need a legend somewhere to explain the types.
Thanks -Vincent
> Thomas Mortagne
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