Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] e.x.o improvements: grid, icons, colors

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Caty,

> On 30 Mar 2018, at 07:51, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)  wrote:
> 
> Hi devs,
> 
> Here are some ideas about how the repository application used on
> extensions.xwiki.org could look like if we were to provide multiple display
> layouts for extensions, require the contributors to add custom icons,
> colors and screenshots.
> 
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/exoGrid
> 
> In terms of design I tried to make it look as a proper application store,
> but it will be heavily influenced on users providing ratings for extensions
> and contributors on providing quality icons / colors/ description /
> screenshots.
> 
> In terms of interaction, the biggest change would be a revamp of the search
> functionality. Currently users are using it, but it's a generic search,
> focused on text results.
> 
> Let me know what you think,

Nice!

I have some comments:

* You dropped the concept of “Recommended” extension which provided an 
interesting definition which is lost and there’s no longer a way for users to 
view Extensions that match a quality criteria. “Top Extensions” is not about 
quality but about how many persons have installed an extension (they don’t even 
need to use it.
* You said “top sponsoring companies”. However there’s only one. See 
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance
* You used “Top Extensions”. I think it would be more accurate to say something 
like “Most Installed Extensions”.
* In the search you show a “Price” facet but this won’t be easy to implement 
because only free apps are available on e.x.o and indexing other repos would 
mean some custom solr index/system and I think that’s probably too complex to 
do.
* I’d like to keep the LT view. 
** It provides a much nicer view when you need to filter and find extensions - 
it’s harder to find what you need if your eyes need to travel horizontally and 
vertically. 
** And doing a search will be a lot slower and refresh the page. 
** It scales less well since you need to click on the next page to view more.
* One idea is to have the “Search” page as a Browse page and have two ways of 
displaying it (either a LT view or a Boxed view with search).
* Globally my worry is that while the boxed view seems nicer visually, I think 
it’s less usable in practice. The improved search view is very nice though 
compared to the search view we have now. So IMO we need to find the right 
balance of LT view and Box view.

Thanks a lot
-Vincent


> Caty
> 
> P.S. Proposal ideas iterated with Marius, Alex and Eduard.

Re: [xwiki-devs] Please review my proposal!

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Vivek,

I’ve reviewed your proposal and it looks very good to me, thanks!

Thanks
-Vincent

> On 27 Mar 2018, at 11:16, Vivek Iyer  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> I've made my proposal for the blockly editor and since the deadline is
> tonight (India time) it would be great if this could be reviewed ASAP!
> The link for my proposal is:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oKmfXGZnxVSGnShkIZ8irfuX4qhR1br3LtKczmc1TY0/edit#
> Thanking you,
> Regards,
> Vivek Iyer

Re: [xwiki-devs] [XWiki Day] BFD#171

[Alex Cotiugă]

Results: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/Bug%20Fixing%20Day%20171.

Thanks,
Alex

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Alex Cotiugă 
wrote:

> Hello devs,
>
> This Thursday is BFD#171:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/XWikiDays#HBugfixingdays
>
> Our current status is:
> * -47 bugs over 120 days (4 months), i.e. we need to close 47 bugs to have
> created bugs # = closed bugs #
> * -96 bugs over 365 days (1 year)
> * -111 bugs over 500 days (between 1 and 2 years)
> * -313 bugs over 1600 days (4.3 years)
> * -720 bugs since the beginning of XWiki
>
> See https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352
>
>
> Here's the BFD#171 dashboard to follow the progress during the day:
> https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=14093
>
> Happy Bug Fixing Day,
> Alex
>
>
>

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] e.x.o improvements: grid, icons, colors

[Thomas Mortagne]

Looks very nice.

The search might require some work but it's the occasion to work on
making the standard search easily customizable to cover this kind of
use case (which is not the first one).

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea
 wrote:
> Awesome!
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> vali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> Here are some ideas about how the repository application used on
>> extensions.xwiki.org could look like if we were to provide multiple
>> display
>> layouts for extensions, require the contributors to add custom icons,
>> colors and screenshots.
>>
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/exoGrid
>>
>> In terms of design I tried to make it look as a proper application store,
>> but it will be heavily influenced on users providing ratings for extensions
>> and contributors on providing quality icons / colors/ description /
>> screenshots.
>>
>> In terms of interaction, the biggest change would be a revamp of the search
>> functionality. Currently users are using it, but it's a generic search,
>> focused on text results.
>>
>> Let me know what you think,
>> Caty
>>
>> P.S. Proposal ideas iterated with Marius, Alex and Eduard.
>>



-- 
Thomas Mortagne

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] e.x.o improvements: grid, icons, colors

[Marius Dumitru Florea]

Awesome!

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
vali...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> Here are some ideas about how the repository application used on
> extensions.xwiki.org could look like if we were to provide multiple
> display
> layouts for extensions, require the contributors to add custom icons,
> colors and screenshots.
>
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/exoGrid
>
> In terms of design I tried to make it look as a proper application store,
> but it will be heavily influenced on users providing ratings for extensions
> and contributors on providing quality icons / colors/ description /
> screenshots.
>
> In terms of interaction, the biggest change would be a revamp of the search
> functionality. Currently users are using it, but it's a generic search,
> focused on text results.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> Caty
>
> P.S. Proposal ideas iterated with Marius, Alex and Eduard.
>