Hi Richard,
thank you for the detailed information. I am looking forward to seeing the
new web interface - when will that be online?
One more question: how long does it take until a contribution's demo is in
the demo browser? Is that an automated process or do you have to manually
upload the demos?
Best,
Christian
2014-04-16 12:20 GMT+02:00 Richard Sternagel [via qooxdoo] <
ml-node+s678n7585561...@n2.nabble.com>:
> 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
>
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