vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> To: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:05:12 AM
> Subject: Re: vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org
> 
> Hi Karsten,
> 
> On 08/22/2012 07:55 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> > On 08/22/2012 08:47 AM, Dan Yasny wrote:
> >> Wiki pages are used by engineering, mainly to describe features
> >> and
> >> projects. I really want the hooks to have a consumable look to
> >> them,
> >> just like https://extensions.gnome.org/ or
> >> http://gallery.zimbra.com/
> >> or marketplace.redhat.com
> >>
> >> This will have to be built, and will take a lot of effort, so I
> >> don't
> >> expect too many changes there, once it's up and running, and the
> >> entry barrier is negligible, compared to the amount of work I'll
> >> be
> >> putting in there anyway.
> >>
> >> So if Wiki is the only choice, we'll have to use wiki, but if it's
> >> possible to do this in a nicer, more mature-looking way, I'd
> >> rather
> >> go there
> >
> > It's not that the wiki is the only choice, I just didn't see an
> > explanation in the discussion as to why it won't suffice. I reckon
> > I see
> > your point now. My only concern is if you can get the design
> > resources
> > to make the look&feel. However, using WordPress at least gets you
> > the
> > same look&feel as the rest of the site (including when it is
> > updated.)
> 
> Just to make it clear: the idea of VDSM hooks is that they're
> downloadable pieces of software (if I understand correctly, they're
> usually shell or Python scripts), so in my mind a wiki isn't really
> appropriate - you want users to be able to upload new hooks, order
> search results based on ratings and/or download statistics for hooks,
> and features like tagging, ratings, comments on a hook and versioning
> are appropriate and useful.
> 

The hooks are delivered as RPMs -they need to be in a yum repo (for fedora/EL) with web/wiki pages with help/docs/etc

> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
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