[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 0d3a559c058aa995b7764d85b80df42f50324938

[Ben Klang]

On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> 
>> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>> 
>>>> Yeah, but it is oh so useful...  Could we keep it as an "unofficial"
>>>> application or something?
>>> 
>>> Sure - could be a separate github repo?
>> 
>> Would it still be "unofficially supported" on the horde mailing lists
>> and horde web site?
>> 
>> Or would you want to basically just split it off completely and not
>> have it mentioned on the website at all?
>> 
>> Maybe an "unofficial" or "contributed" section of the web site modules
>> pages?
>> 
>> Just not sure where you want to go with this exactly...
> 
> We talked about a few options at the hackathon on this, and didn't really get anywhere specific - we all agreed that an ecosystem of horde apps was something to strive for, but not sure how to get there.
> 
> I won't veto (or delete it again!) if someone re-adds it, but I still feel like we should be focusing our apps more, and that jeta is way outside our sweet spot.
> 
> -chuck
> 
For what it's worth, I concur with Chuck here.  I think the easiest thing to do in the short term is to mark what the official Horde apps are.  Today I think that means everything that comes with Groupware plus probably tickets, wiki, files, photos and timetracker.  Fair candidates might also be SCM browser, news and bookmarks.

That still leaves several apps that are very good but either not feature-complete or buggy/semi-maintained.  In this category are DNS and email managers, CDR viewer, social network, etc.  Personally I rely on several of these apps daily but their existence at the same level as our flagship applications I think betrays user expectations of maturity.

This obviously will require further discussion and actual effort, but finding some way to have a directory of Horde apps (like what Firefox does for extensions) would be a good thing for the rest of the project in my opinion.  

/BAK/
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