Hi Thomas and devs,

> On 31 Jan 2019, at 09:35, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi xwikiers,
> 
> I'm never sure where to put ideas of extensions I have so I often
> forget them or details I had tough about or gathered back then.
> 
> I don't think http://design.xwiki.org is the right place until you
> really start designing the extension. Also it's too generic for this
> need and not a very good entry point for searching something IMO, more
> something to link to from somewhere else.
> 
> I would prefer something really dedicated to this "that would be a
> nice thingy but not sure about the details yet" state. Would be a good
> source for hackathons and GSOC or for contributors who are searching
> for something interesting to work on.
> 
> I was thinking about the following alternatives:
> * a new dedicated project on https://jira.xwiki.org
> * reuse https://jira.xwiki.org/projects/XCONTRIB after some cleanup
> (close everything left in it basically) but not super clean (it's just
> that it's a good name)
> * some new application on http://www.xwiki.org
> 
> WDYT ?
> 
> Right now my preference goes to a clean new jira project (just need to
> think about a good project id) where you put description and close it
> when the extension work really start on a dedicated location. Less
> work and should do the job well.

For me a single design page on design.xwiki.org called “Wanted Extensions” 
would be enough. We had such a page for “Wanted Macros” and then we strike them 
out when they’re implemented/available (see 
https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros).

Installing the Idea app is a nice idea :) Unfortunately this app only supports 
a single idea theme ATM (AFAIK). If we could use it in a namespace (under a 
given page) then we could install it on design.xwiki.org and make that “Wanted 
Extensions” page use it. That would be ideal for me. It shouldn’t be hard to 
refactor the Idea app to support that I guess if it doesn’t already support it.

I don’t like too much using JIRA for this (I prefer to keep JIRA for stuff to 
implement, i.e. when it goes out of the idea/design phase) and keep 
design.xwiki.org as our first phase and only create issues in jira when it’s 
tasked for implementation.

Thanks
-Vincent


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