> On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:20, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 06 Jun 2016, at 11:00, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>> 
>>>> On 06 Jun 2016, at 10:44, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> 
>>>> 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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