Re: Start a gnome-shell-extensions repository / module

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:

But that's not the experience we want with extensions. Installing an
extension is like modding your car. You've opened the hood and pulled
out some hoses, and now you can plug in the new chip for your engine,
and maybe it will give you more power, or maybe it will make your car
spew black smoke, and you've accepted that, because if it works you'll
be a hero to your friends.

 

The "danger" element is why in the long-term I see a web user interface
as being essential to this. If the user was looking at a list of
extensions in the package installer for their operating system, they'd
have no way of knowing which ones were cool and work well, and which
ones just make GNOME Shell spew black smoke. Ratings and comments are
essential parts of the experience.

That sounds a bit like the marketplace idea that some of advocated for in marketing list.  It would be more like the firefox extensions set up.  I'd love to see something like that setup within the gnome.org structure.  If you have thoughts in that direction that I'd like to see us start planning for that infrastructure now rather than later.  I think there would be a long lead time to set it up.

 

But that doesn't really answer the question of what to do in the short
term... I agree that it's not great that people just post links to
extensions here and they disappear into the archives.

What you've advocated seems acceptable.  Something in the l.g.o pointing to user extensions with "use at your own risk" or some such thing should be added as well.
 
sri