Re: How to see your extensions submitted for the first time on e.g.o? & recommendations.

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Amy C <mathematical coffee gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just taken the leap of submitting a few extensions to
> extensions.gnome.org (gulp!).
>
> In the mean time, I found that I had omitted a line from one of them.
> I thought I'd visit the review page for the extension on e.g.o and
> either see if there was an option to upload a better version, or at
> the very least I'd add a comment saying "there's one line missing, it
> goes there" etc so that the reviewer doesn't waste time
> reviewing/rejecting the extension for the one line I know I've missed.
>
> However, I cannot seem to find the review page for the extensions I
> submitted, or indeed any indication at all that the submit succeeded!
>
> This is probably only an issue when first uploading an extension,
> before the extension gets its own official page in e.g.o.
>
> So I'd like to ask/recommend the following:
> - author gets sent an automated email upon extension uploading saying
> "Yes, we received your extension. Its review page is <insert link
> here> and it will be reviewed in time. You will be emailed the results
> ... <etc>".
>  At least that way I can find my way back to the review page to leave
> a comment if need be, or adjust the description.

We already send email to reviewers. I could submit it to the extension
author as well.

> - when I look at my profile, it has "mathematical.coffee has
> authored:" and nothing else. This makes me confused - I have submitted
> 3 extensions, all of which are still in review, and none have shown
> up. I assume the "authored" list means "has submitted, been reviewed,
> and approved"?

Yes.

In that case, could there be a bit in the profile
> (visible to just the user) saying "you have the following extensions
> under review: " with a link to the review page so that I can find it?

I can do that, yes.

> It is possible that the above two are already implemented, in which
> case it appears that I didn't upload my extensions properly.
> In this case, I'm not sure how it's done - I uploaded the zip file and
> got to the preview page where you get to modify the text/screenshot if
> you like.
> However I was unsure what to do next - is that it? I can just leave
> that page and assume everything's been submitted? I find that this
> page does not make clear that you're finished.
> Could it either:
> - have a 'submit' button saying "yes I'm happy with the current
> screenshot/description/title, please submit this for review", OR
> - a line of text saying "all your changes are automatically saved,
> when you're happy you can leave this page (and here's a link to the
> extension's review page for future reference)" -- just for silly
> people like me who are new to the whole process?
>
> ----------------
> (If you are wondering, the extensions I submitted were:
> * Maximus -- like Ubuntu's maximus. Automatically undecorates
> maximised windows. (This is the one with a missing line).
> * Status Area Horizontal Spacing -- reduces padding between objects in
> the status area
> * Window Options -- adds 'minimize', 'maximize', 'always on top',
> 'always on visible workspace' etc options to the app drop-down menu in
> the top panel.
>
> Also, for the past few weeks I have been pestering this list about
> various things to do with toons and xpenguins - I'm happy to announce
> that my port of xpenguin to a gnome-shell-extension is sort-of ready
> to go!
> It lives here (the .zip file on the Downloads page):
> https://bitbucket.org/mathematicalcoffee/xpenguins-gnome-shell-extension
> At the moment it's just the gnome 3.4 version that works properly -
> I'll also upload a .zip for the gnome 3.2 version tomorrow when I can
> test the merge.
>
> Still work to done and nowhere ready for e.g.o, but as far as I've
> tested so far it runs properly! (patches & suggestions welcome of
> course...)
> Thanks to all the people who responded to my emails about this
> (particularly Jasper who seemed to answer most of the annoying
> questions).
> As buggy as it may be, I'm really proud of this effort and I've
> definitely learned a lot in programming it :)
> )
>
> cheers!
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-- 
  Jasper