I'd probably recommend 'outsourcing' things like version control to
services like gitorious; concentrate our end on providing a good
index.
Ideally this should have a nice machine-friendly API so we can check
for updates and do things like providing a search-and-install UI
within the site admin panel.
-- brion
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be good if it was modeled after drupal.org/project more then
> addons.mozilla.org. Then anyone can submit patches and provide support
> without directly relying on the developer. If I had a dollar for every time I
> wanted to use an abandoned Firefox extension...
>
>
> Version control might be a bit out of scope but with a little love git
> would integrate with the project module nicely. This could maybe be an option
> for the developers who want it. Then if they can't maintain the code or it
> becomes abandoned someone else could become maintainer.
>
>
> Abraham
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 17:30, Brenda Wallace
> <sh...@cpan.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sh...@cpan.org');>> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Evan Prodromou
> <e...@status.net <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'e...@status.net');>> wrote:
>> It would be awesome if we had some cataloging software for third-party
>> add-ons for StatusNet. I'm thinking something like addons.mozilla.org or
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ .
>>
>> I'd love to have three categories:
>>
>> status.net/clients/ - different clients
>> status.net/themes/ - themes
>> status.net/plugins/ - various plugins
>>
>> It would be great to have the following features:
>>
>> one page per item
>> screenshots (where applicable)
>> user ratings
>> links for download
>> link to author
>> link to homepage
>> user reviews and comments
>> different versions
>> tags
>> search
>>
>> Does anything like this exist? Or are we going to have to do this with
>> Drupal?
>
> heh -- drupal will work nicely.
> some views, some taxonomy terms, and we're done.
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