Hey Christian, first of all thanks a lot for your feedback - it's even more valuable cause in my mind all of your points are valid and true! :)
* documentation scattered Short term solution: I've added a note regarding the more current manual page about contribs. Long term solution: I've filed a bug (#8263) for an overall overhaul of the contrib wiki section. * process complicated It's right that it takes now more effort to distribute your contrib with the contrib catalog. But it also gives you more freedom (e.g. where your code is hosted), and will make it easier to find new contribs in the future, when the web interface [1] is in place. The checksum is indeed a high barrier to entry for newcomers and we consider to remove it (we favored security over convenience in the past), at least for the master/trunk version of the contribs. We should also add more documentation on how to generate one. * violating DRY You're right on this too regarding the current state (contrib wiki as it exists now in co-existence with the catalog), we had not the time to accomplish the next milestone, but we had DRY in mind: - the idea is to boil down the contrib wiki section once the web interface [1] for the contribs is live. - the web interface consumes (i.e. reuses) the catalog content and besides that should have no manually maintained content. - the catalog content, i.e. the "Manifest.json" files, should only slightly differ from the "Manifest.json" file the author maintains with his contrib. So on the one hand the contrib author has to deal with the catalog but on the other hand he/she also saves time because there would be no need to edit the wiki page of all available contribs manually [2] anymore. * active curation Good point, we'll consider that in the future. We wanted to first launch the web interface in order to encourage contrib authors to update their contribs. [1] https://github.com/qooxdoo/contrib-platform/tree/master/catalog-webinterface [2] http://qooxdoo.org/contrib/project Regards Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
