[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

[Hay (Husky)]

Oh, and you might want to fix your toolinfo.json files, they have
comments. Unfortunately JSON doesn't allow that.

-- Hay

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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