Re: ego website

[alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>]

Emmanuele, 

There are some problems

1. I wrote an extension and I am so excited that people are going to use it :)

    But it takes so long to get published :(

2. I updated my extensions and I added some cool new things :)

    But it takes so long to get updated :(

3. Till my extension got reviewed, I have already updated it :/ 

What if 500 extensions with monthly updates? 

I suppose that main gnome developers lose precious time by reviewing extensions

while ext. authors might (just might) lose motivation.  

Anyway, I will not propose solutions here. I guess you know better what has to (& can) be done.

- alex

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:

hi;

On 22 April 2014 14:40, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> The question here is why GNOME Devs should explicitly review the extensions?

because extensions run in the same process space as the window
manager, which is a privileged piece of software.

> Add a notice that we aren't responsible for the quality of extensions

this is not a matter of quality: it's a matter of shipping an
extension from a gnome.org website that can do whatever it wants with
the input and output of your system.

> and let users review them.

this is even worse than not having anybody reviewing them.

> If possible have just some automated tests.

it's not possible, unless you can write tools that manage to
understand the intent of the code.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sam Bull <sam hacking sent com> wrote:
>>
>> On mar, 2014-04-22 at 08:51 -0400, Norman L. Smith wrote:
>> > My entry in the queue is recent (less than two weeks ago, there is no
>> > personal complaint).  I understand extensions are adjuncts to the shell
>> > and other priorities will always come before them.
>>
>> From what I can tell, it seems that there is only one person reviewing
>> extensions. This results in the queue only being reviewed like every 2
>> months or something, which causes long delays (I'm just an extension dev
>> myself). I'm guessing there's just nobody else volunteering to help with
>> reviews.
>>
>> Maybe if some kind of public call was put out, it might be possible to
>> find more some more reviewers, in order to improve this experience.
>>
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