On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:40:59 AM UTC-5, Mister Guru wrote: > > > On 3 Oct 2012, at 03:35, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > If you weren't at PuppetConf or didn't catch my talk, here's a quick > > recap. I'm product owner for the Puppet Forge team which formed in > > July with 2 awesome engineers and an equally awesome designer. We're a > > team dedicated to the Forge and while ramping up, we've shipped three > > small improvements to the Forge that we hope you enjoy. > > Good Morning Ryan! Nice to hear news about the puppet forge! Product owner > huh?? Hey guys, now we know who to bug when it come to the Forge! > > > > > * Two lists were added to the homepage, highlighting recently active > > modules and contributors > > * An authors Gravatar is now displayed on each module page. > > * Today, the Forge will now retrieve information about GitHub issues > > and pull requests for a module for display on a module page. This has > > been automatically enabled for any module that lists GitHub as its > > 'Project Issue Tracker URL'. > > I noticed this last night, it was great. I was stuck with a module I > downloaded - I looked it up on the forge, and I noticed a link to the git > page - I then realised the problem was ummm..... me, using the module in > the not right way. Most useful, saved me bashing my keyboard against the > computer > > > The team is just getting started. In the mean-time, we've been making > > improvements to our back-end services, user-testing new feature ideas > > and getting ready for the next wave of functionality. Our next > > features will focus on these two areas. A) Making it easy for you to > > contribute your module & B) Improve the information you have to make a > > decision about which module to use. > > > > As we develop and test ideas to address these goals, we want your > feedback! > > > > Ah yes - Point B - How about ranking by downloads? I'm sure you can pull > the stats from Forge servers. I'm assuming people log into the forge to do > some background before running public code, for compliance, and in my case > to suppress paranoia :) > > How about making the forge a bit more social - For example how about being > able to review a module, or write a comment about it on the forge? That > way, it's a bit easier for the author to get some feedback, and also for > others to get an idea how 'good' the module is. > > That would come in useful when some modules depend on others, if I'm > trying to install module A, and A insists on B, C, and D - I'd rather read > up on others, who went live straight away without testing and are > complaining about their broken systems .... Oh, I mean, I'd like to read > the reviews from other users praising the awesomeness of the forge. > > Imagine that - In 6 months we could have modules writers competing against > each other - now that would be cool - Author rankings, (obviously Puppet > Labs Employees and modules excluded!) - and peer competition could only > lead to better code >
+1 on all these ideas, though I don't think that the "number of downloads" metric is really useful, a high number could just mean that it is easrlier in the list and still a crappy module.. But I do really like the idea of being able have some sort of community review on the modules, be that comments or even a simple up/down voting type system. > > > Feel free to file bugs, features --anything really-- to our Redmine > > project: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/module-site/issues > > Aside from that and this user list, you may always email me directly > > -- ry...@puppetlabs.com <javascript:> -- or find me on #puppet as > ryancoleman. I'm > > always connected via ZNC so if you don't get an immediate response in > > IRC, know that I'll see your message and reply if I can. > > > > > > Finally, if you haven't tried out the Forge in a while, please give it > > another go. http://forge.puppetlabs.com -- Each day new content is > > added or updated and there's some truly awesome stuff amongst the 500+ > > Forge modules. There's also a blog-post series showcasing a new one > > each week. links.puppetlabs.com/motw > > > > Thanks for your time and for being an awesome community! > > > > --Ryan > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Sa2VOCrA2nQJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
