On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:55 AM David Jencks <david.a.jen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’ve been studying the camel-quarkus website wondering about generating the > table of extensions and I have some questions…. > > The page is named “list of extensions” but that’s not what it actually is. > It has tables of components, data formats, and languages, with links to the > extension they are in. I find this confusing. >
On SB its called list of starters https://camel.apache.org/camel-spring-boot/latest/list.html But yeah I agree we could look at naming this better and more consistent across the projects. https://camel.apache.org/camel-karaf/latest/components.html https://camel.apache.org/camel-kafka-connector/latest/connectors.html https://camel.apache.org/camel-quarkus/latest/list-of-camel-quarkus-extensions.html https://camel.apache.org/components/latest/ > What are users likely to find most useful? Are they likely to think of the > components, data formats, and languages they need and want to know what > extensions are needed to run in camel-quarkus? Or are they going to search > directly for extensions? Or both? > > If it’s the former, I think having separate index pages for the types of > “thing” would be a good idea, to match the main camel website. Then there’s > the question of what you get to when you select a “thing”. The extension > pages don’t seem to me to be a very good match for clicking on a “thing” in > an extension. I think it would make more sense to show a wrapper around most > of the main camel “thing” page, the wrapper indicating something about the > extension that provides the “thing”. Leaving out the information not useful > for camel-quarks would be a good idea too… I think this includes the “main” > camel maven coordinates. As part of this question, is Spring Boot relevant > to camel-quarkus? > > On the other hand, if users are more likely to be looking for extensions > directly, then actually having a table of extensions would be a good idea. > The list of extensions could also show up in the nav as a collapsible level 2 > list. > > Furthermore, would it be good to have links from the main camel “thing” pages > to the quarkus extension providing them? > > thanks > David Jencks -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
