[libreoffice-website] Re: Extensions-Site-New: Current Dev-Status

Andreas, could you add a field in the page which promotes where the
extensions' source code is hosted to try and encourage people contributing
to these as well?

Sincerely,
Jean Spiteri.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Robinson Tryon [via Document Foundation
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> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Owen Genat <[hidden email]
> <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4122629&i=0>> wrote:
> > By way of comment, comparing:
> > http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/languagetool
> > http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/languagetool
> >
> > ... it is fairly obvious which is easier for a user to navigate. The AOO
> one
> > offers a simple summary table and big green download button. Very user
> > friendly. The new LO site does no have enough content yet to get a clear
> > impression of how it has improved.
>
> In terms of user feedback/content, the AOO page provides a lot more
> opportunities:
> 1) There's a score from 1-5 stars
>
> This is similar to , but provides more granularity, than an up/down vote.
>
> 2) "Compatible with OpenOffice 4: Yes"
>
> We don't have any uploaded files on the extension test site to compare...
>
> 3) "User feedback: Compatible with OpenOffice 4.x?  (up/down votes as
> percentage)"
>
> This kind of feedback is very useful. Even better would be a bar
> chart/heatmap corresponding to each version of an extension. There
> could be a slot for each version of LibreOffice (we'd only display LO
> versions that have been tested).
>
> We could perhaps take a cue from WineHQ's visualization:
> https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=648
>
> > > From a support point of view I feel it would also be good to enforce
> visible
> > contact details for extension publishers. At present it can be difficult
> to
> > track down the author of an extension. I often find myself in forum
> answers
> > stating "(try to) contact the extension author" without being able to
> offer
> > much in the way of further assistance.
>
> Andreas -- Could this requirement be tied to the creation of an
> account with extension-publishing powers?
>
> Ideally we'd give the user an option of providing an email address or
> website url. We'd want to include some language suggesting that we
> might deprecate or disable the pages of publishers/extensions that
> don't have an active support mechanism.
>
> --R
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