On 20/03/2014 Kay Schenk wrote:
Every once in a while a topic arises on this list and gets a response like "that might be a good idea for an extension".
Right, but most of the times it is just a wish. The API available to extension developers does not allow to do everything. So it is very important to distinguish between responses that take into consideration what can really be done with an extension and responses that don't.
* Is is a good idea to steer new developers into extension development maybe as an introductory step?
Probably it would be more effective to have more, well-defined and verified (in the sense above, i.e., that someone with the needed knowledge has verified them) easy tasks. Building an extension still requires skills.
* and, assuming we can track down some of proposed extensions, where is a good place to record these for future reference?
It seems we have https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions/Ideas ; but looking at https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Extensions/Ideas/Calc&action=history I see no indications that we are using it the right way (again: checking that it is possible with the current API to implement those ideas). It would be good to ask the API list for a quick validation of that page.
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