Hi, I am a big fan of more attention to the contributions. However, it seems to me we should be more pragmatic about it and not aim too high. For me, the basic questions are:
1) How can we make it easier to people to add contributions? (Entry barrier) 2) How can we make it easier and more fun to maintain a contribution (i.e., in particular, keeping documentation/description and code in sync). This is crucial for the quality of contributions, since nobody gets paid to work on those, so it must be "painless". Without regular maintenance, contributions soon become worthless. 3) How can we make the process of maintaining high-quality contribs as self-organizing as possible (without having to form committees etc.) 4) How can we make contribs easy to find, understand, and install for end-users as easy as possible. I think 1) is the least problematic point. It is very easy to create a contribution with the shipped scripts. Uplaoding to SVN also shouldn't be a problem for anyone. 2-4) present some more challenges, about which I have already given my opinion earlier. I wonder if it was possible, as a community, to put together a webapplication, written in qooxdoo, which allows for a one-stop solution for everything that is related with a contrib: Documentation, API viewer, Bug reports, Demo, Snippets to put into config.json, Version information, FAQ, questions, etc. etc. Some of the stuff is already there and could be included via iframes. Such an application should be a tool for maintainers just as for users. Maintainers could edit the contrib data (secured by the sourceforge / wiki login, for example), Users could search for contribs, get installation and usage help, and rate the contribs / write reviews. The latter would contribute to the self-organizing aspect - let the users decide if something is useful, not some committee. The Iphone App store and other such mechanisms show the way. What we need help with is the server-side. If the devs could provide some json web service that woud delive the Manifest.json data, and some authentication scheme for contributors, it might be possible for the community to write such an "Contrib store". C. -- View this message in context: http://qooxdoo.678.n2.nabble.com/speed-of-development-tp5168583p5190282.html Sent from the qooxdoo mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
