Oh no.... The internet never forgets! ...tonight I am going to party like it is 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20000816062846/http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/index.cfm
...I take it back. App Stores are way, way, way sexier. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Christopher Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the explanation, and video! Do you have any old screenshots > of the Allaire stuff, out of curiosity? > > That grid does seems nice, and yeah, we do know which plugins are newest > (I'm a fan of @jenkins_release) though I do prefer the version without > icons.. :) > > Getting plugin developers to *name* their plugin in a reasonable (and > consistent) way is hard enough, never mind getting them to add a wiki > page, and then add a short but meaningful description there... so I'm > going to be pessimistic about icons, I'm afraid. > > Regards, > Chris > > > On 08/10/15 22:58, Gus Reiber wrote: > > I think plugins are almost exactly like apps in an app store. Way back > > when I worked at Allaire, we (Mike Nimer and I) built a Developer's > > exchange that featured CFML applets and code snippets. That experience > > was designed very much like today's app-stores (but with older and > > crappier web-tech). It wasn't as sex as an app-store, but a lot sexier > > than random text articles. They also had interesting metadata that was > > associated with them, that again matches our plugins almost exactly: > > Their review ranking, installation share (% of Jenkins users using this > > plugin), a category badge ...and though I have gotten negative pushback > > about this before, I don't think it would unreasonable to ask plugin > > authors to give their plugin an icon. > > > > ...something like this, but more of a website form factor than an in-app > > form factor: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxKvyX4Oq8 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPUMe3lzfo > > > > ...the form factor isn't quite right for a website, but yeah, the > > sorting, grouping, categorizing is pretty close. > > > > ...the fresh content is new plugins or plugins that are freshly updated. > > The other fresh content is the reviews of those plugins. We can automate > > which plugins we show based on user feedback. > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Christopher Orr <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 08/10/15 21:44, Baptiste Mathus wrote: > > > 2015-10-08 20:36 GMT+02:00 Gus Reiber <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>: > > > ....Personally, I think the demonstration of Jenkins > extensibility > > > is more impressive than the saying of it. And, that > demonstration is > > > the plugins. Thus rather than an article that say 'hey look, > we are > > > extensible', I would think we would just want to go straight > into > > > showing off the plugins, just as http://getbootstrap.com/ goes > > > straight into showing you Bootstrap or the Play store goes > straight > > > into showing you the Andoid apps or http://www.deviantart.com/ > goes > > > straight into showing you the art. To me, showing off the > plugins > > > screams extensibility and the content stays fresh by virtue of > the > > > fact that people are interacting with the plugins themselves. > > > > > > You convinced me Gus. > > > > > > IMO, we can indeed show off the plugins, showing the enormous > numbers of > > > themes where Jenkins can actually change its behaviour by being > > > extensible and having been extended by plugins. > > > > My question is: how do you "show off a plugin"? > > > > Jenkins plugins aren't Bootstrap themes, nor are they Android apps — > the > > most you could show off for the vast majority of plugins would be a > > screenshot of an ugly configuration form. > > > > I'm not sure what "the content stays fresh" means in this context, > and > > who (and how) people are "interacting with the plugins" on the > website? > > > > Is the idea to have specially-written content (i.e. separate from the > > wiki page that every plugin has), which highlights key plugins on the > > main website? > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in > > the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/EMbE3a4u8nA/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > [email protected] > > <mailto:jenkinsci-dev%[email protected]>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/5616D1D0.4050609%40orr.me.uk > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAOcHHXyU-ExO7EJMK_LofNfhyffnV-Cp144rKLX8f9%3D-OpO2kQ%40mail.gmail.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAOcHHXyU-ExO7EJMK_LofNfhyffnV-Cp144rKLX8f9%3D-OpO2kQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/EMbE3a4u8nA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/5616DAF0.7080405%40orr.me.uk > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. 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