[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

[Hay (Husky)]

Hey Hedonil,
thanks for the suggestion for a 'repository' property, i've added
that. Adding it now adds a 'source available' link in the tool card,
and also groups them in a special category.

-- Hay

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Hedonil <hedonil at action.ms> wrote:
> Awesomeness has been found!
> This thing was long overdue and finally you came up with an easy
> solution. Thx.
>
> Many approaches have been started in the past to solve this issue (lokal
> wikis, meta, some fields iin wikitech...).
> Maybe merge this info with some ldap fields and make it accessible it
> via OAuth, too.
> We should definitely start a discussion to gain more ideas about a
> unified, comprehensive Tools(Labs)-directory - this json-thing is the
> right starting point.
>
> If Coren & Andrew could start and coordinate such a small but
> nonetheless important project (~4 weeks), that would be great.
>
> As a first suggestion to the current json:
> - Could you add a field "repo" to tell "OpenSource" from
> "Not-So-OpenSource" and to have all relevant info's at a glance ?
>
> ...and a minor thing:
> Pls. add
>
> mimetype.assign  += (
>     ".log"  => "text/plain",
> )
>
> to your .lighttpd.conf (create if not exist). That'll make the logs
> readable in the browser.
>
> Good job. Cheers
> -Hedonil
>
>
>
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