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 3:16 AM, Jasper St. Pierre
<jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> 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.

This is done.

>> 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?

Yes.

>> 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

We used to do this, but people didn't hit the "Submit" button, even
with a lot of prompting, so we removed the intermediate step.

>> - 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?

I'm working with the designers on a redesign that should make this
process a lot more clear.

>> ----------------
>> (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



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