On 19 May 2015 at 19:40, Philippe Mouawad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 May 2015 at 17:46, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected] >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >>That is very different from promoting specific plugin providers in the >> > JMeter documentation. >> > >> > As Philippe has already pointed out, j-p is already promoted right in >> > the documentation: >> > http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/boss.html#jmeter-plugins >> >> I had not noticed that. >> >> I think it is wrong and needs to be removed, along with any other 3rd >> party references. >> However the page can mention the Wiki. >> >> I don't agree with this. > Core jmeter "lacks" today of: > - Excellent reporting (until we implement one bugzilla for it) > - Continuous integration plugin (like maven one) > - Cloud open source ready solution
That's not relevant to this issue. > > This page tells users which plugins to use for this in the Open source > field and for now only mentionned some kind of de facto standards. Which is wrong, because there are other plugins. We cannot favour one 3rd party over another. > Besides, All implementors of these plugins are regular contributors of > JMeter and I think they deserve a special mention. Not really relevant. > Furthermore there plugin follow jmeter releases and this is a good thing. Again, not relevant. > Regarding Wiki, today it is highly outdated in terms of content, Go fix it then ... > anybody can write anything meaning content is not really managed and > controlled by > us. That's partly the point, because it allows any 3rd party producer to add a link to their product. But we do have control over the content. We can revert bad edits and revoke write access for people who don't play nice. > Finally I find it personaly rather very slow and not sexy at all. Again not relevant. > Felix has build a nice RWD website and I spent some time updating the docs. > All this to say that removing this page would kind of annoy me. I'm sorry about that, but the content can be added to the new JMeterPlugins page I just set up. I should have vetoed the original commit, but I'm afraid I overlooked it. > I think JMeter has a nice community that we need to preserve and make > bigger, wether open source (not only Apache) or even commercial(which is > not against Apache policy from my understanding). Fine, but we still cannot favour some 3rd parties over others. > We are all aware that we have a huge work to do on JMeter and the more we > are the better it is. Again not relevant. > Regards > Philippe > > >> Vladimir >> > > > -- > Cordialement. > Philippe Mouawad.
