Hi guys, as you might, or might not, have read, the new nuget gallery is out. http://haacked.com/archive/2011/12/05/nuget_org_update.aspx
Changes that affect our pkgs are two: Package owners are displayed more prominently. In the old gallery, the > owners of the package weren’t displayed. Anywhere. Which was a terrible > experience because the owners are the people who matter. A package owner is > associated with an account. The “author” of a package is simply metadata > and could be anyone. Now our pkg page (http://nuget.org/packages/Lucene.net) shows me, Prescott and the prev owner of the pkg id as owners. And the lucene.net community as owner. But in the list ( http://nuget.org/packages?q=lucene&sortOrder=package-download-count) you get only the owner names. So, maybe, it would be good to create a team-wide nuget account to add together with other accounts (like also MS is doing with it's own packages) And I would also remove the prev owner from the list, if everyone is ok with that. Package unlisting. Packages can now be unlisted. This effectively hides the > package, but the package is still used to resolve dependencies. That relates to the deprecated pkgs. We could hide the deprecated packages, so they don't show up in the gallery when ppl search for lucene. But they will still be used to resolve dependencies from other packages. But, the downside is that ppl that directly downloaded the "old" lucene pkg will not receive any update. How do we want to handle that? We keep it like we did, or do we mark it as "unlisted"? Simone Chiaretta Microsoft MVP ASP.NET - ASPInsider Blog: http://codeclimber.net.nz RSS: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/codeclimber twitter: @simonech Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic "Life is short, play hard"
