[OOTB-hive] Useful Add-ons and Patches WAS Re: OOTB contribution issues
Craig Nelson
craig.michael.nelson at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 03:25:54 BST 2016
Richard, I have never put it in an addon because it is currently packaged
in a large amp with several other files for my client. It would take me a
few hours to abstract all of these features into their own packages and
then I am sure I would get tons of feedback about code quality ;)
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Richard Esplin <richard.esplin at alfresco.com
> wrote:
> Craig,
>
> These are all great add-ons. I am especially interested in the Global
> Wiki. I get requests for that all the time, and I'm not aware of any plans
> to solve that problem officially. Is the source published somewhere? Have
> you listed it in the Add-ons directory (http://addons.alfresco.com)?
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Everyone,
>
> This conversation has been really interesting. I enjoyed hearing about the
> efforts people shared.
>
> What other general purpose add-ons have people written?
>
> Though it might be a distinct effort, I think a list of useful patches
> would be really interesting to review, though I'm not sure what form it
> would take (Github?). I know Ian's work to make it easy to set up CAS has
> benefited many people, and I would like know more about the patches that
> Axel, Andreas, Tahir, and others apply consistently.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> On Thursday, July 28, 2016 12:57:03 PM MDT Craig Nelson wrote:
> > I just want to add that I also have several different potential addons
> that
> > could be valuable to others. Here are a few examples
> >
> > 1. Peer Association 2 way document link (Currently Alfresco only does a 1
> > way link)
> > 2. Aikau Audit report for Users and Documents
> > 3. custom document DataTable Metadata type (Stores info into json and
> > displays it in a table view)
> > 4. Global Wiki that allows for use to external site wikis.
> >
> > These are just a few of the different addons that I have made for my
> > customers that I can contribute. One of the issues is I am not sure how
> > valuable these are to others and if they will work with the current
> > versions of alfresco.
> >
> > Let me know if anyone is interested in these and i'll make them
> available.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Craig
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Andreas Steffan <
> a.steffan at contentreich.de
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On 07/27/2016 01:47 PM, martin at bettercode.com wrote:
> > > > I think though that it is very telling that the only addon we can all
> > > > agree should be in Honeycomb is the Javascript console - this is not
> an
> > > > addon that is targetted at the end user or end user market! I think
> we
> > > > should probably have a bit more focus on who we are creating these
> > > > things for, because I don't think it's developers like ourselves
> (even
> > > > if we all do install JS console as the first action on a new
> > > > deployment!)
> > >
> > > It is very telling indeed!
> > >
> > > Even though there seem to be little agreement on various things, I
> guess
> > > should be safe to say that we aim at something of better quality than
> > > CE, right?
> > >
> > > So let me come back to the bugfix aspect:
> > >
> > > Managing bugfixes externally (from Alfresco) is challenging. It gets
> > > more difficult the shorter Alfresco GA release cycles get, and the more
> > > releases need to be maintained. Other than that, applying them is
> > > painful already.
> > >
> > > Still, I'd like to see whether we can somehow join forces here.
> > >
> > > Today, I have put together an Open-/Libreoffice watchdog which plays
> > > with OOoDirect. Basically, it kills and restarts office in case it dies
> > > or in case it gets stuck. This add-on works as a drop-in jar. I would
> > > put this on github under the OOTB banner if you guys are comfortable
> > > with it. I think this issue is a perfect candidate because the issue
> has
> > > been around for a while and will most likely be around for some time to
> > > come.
> > >
> > > However, I refuse to do amp development. If amp is a must, maybe
> > > somebody else could come up with an aggregation project.
> > >
> > > Would anybody on this list be interested to contribute in a bugfix
> > > project? Using it or even contributing fixes?
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Andreas
> > >
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