> It might be nice to have a way of marking addons as broken, either with a todo/fixme note or maybe just a documented way of deleting them?
I think that's a splendid idea. Whenever I engage with an addon I've never used before, it takes me far too long to conclude that it's derelict. To stop our treasury of addons degenerating into a midden, I'd welcome an accepted *easy* way of alerting the owner – or fellow-users – to broken code (i.e. not a full-blown bug tracker). Am I the only one? Are we going to do something about it? Are we going to finish what we start? What's the best/most obvious alert mechanism? …the Talk page of the landing page for the Addon in question at code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons <http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/GitHub> ? This forum? Or something Github-based? (and hence over the vendor's horizon)? On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks like a good idea. > > The one suggestion I would have is that this makes it easy to install > broken stuff. Of course, we have already had breakages with system > upgrades - interface changes or removed dependencies can show up as > addons not working right. It might be nice to have a way of marking > addons as broken, either with a todo/fixme note or maybe just a > documented way of deleting them? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:49 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > (This is cross posted to general and programming - please send any > comments > > to general.) > > > > We plan to move the addons source from SVN to github, and at the same > time > > support installs from personal github repos outside the main addons > source. > > See code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/GitHub . > > > > We have this working now, but would appreciate comments before going > ahead, > > thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
