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Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:22 pm
by AmyStephen
SWEET!

It's like a tribute to Kenmcd.

When I first started using Joomla!, I printed Ken's list and it and Joomla! are precisely what hooked me: a solid base PLUS+++++++

I cannot tell you (core developers, ken, extension writers) how much I appreciate your work.  Thanks!

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:05 pm
by b3rx
nicely done guys!!! superb work indeed!

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:32 pm
by MystaMax
good deal guys! This is very helpful! Thanks!

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:25 pm
by Rochen
I truly believe that the addition of the Developer site recently and now the Extensions site will take Joomla to new levels as far as 3PD are concerned.

While the Core Team do a fantastic job maintaining the core code a large part of what makes Joomla so great is the work put in by 3PD. These new 'micro' sites will be of tremendous help in making the various third-party components, plugins etc. available and building an even stronger community to back the project.

My congratulations to everyone involved! :)

- Chris

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:58 pm
by umek
omg what a page ... wonderful ... more than what was needed. perfect new organisation!

10x to all

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:14 pm
by tj.baker
FANTASTIC!!!

Thanks for the work people......Yet again taking a wonderful thing and making it better!!!  :D :D :D

peace

tj

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:36 pm
by Manoxtra
Im truly amazed!!! This will make many quests for PLUGINS much more easier...  :) :) :)
Thx for your time and effort once again!

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:41 pm
by kabam
AWESOME!!!!  Great job done by all.  Let me tell you that this a welcomed breath of fresh air.  I've already found a few components that I didn't know existed.  Thanks to the developers of the site for all of your hard, devoted effort!

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:54 pm
by newart
Great work!!!!!!!!! And even Great work for guilliam in FAQ forum http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,49.0.html where I have always found a lot of resources... I like to remember all efforts done and this new feature is very impressive!!!! Wow, I think that $ambo is totally and definitely OUT! Viva the Open Source!

Well, I'd like to rate sundry components but I see "You need to login first before you can rate" - sorry but I cannot... any problem...  ???

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:01 pm
by Tonie
@newart
You need to register on the site first, you can't use your forum credentials (you can register with the same credentials of cource).

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:28 pm
by fonny
Great guys,

The most user friendly CMS has just been extended with the most missing user friendly link  :)
A hell of a job but you did it again!  Thanks for this fantastic extension.

Fonny

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:43 pm
by gram
A heartfelt thank you to all who helped to put this together.  Excellent job.

GRAM

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:50 pm
by guilliam
another heart winner to the community! :)



great to see its no publicly launched. no more pw's to type in to enter the portal(inside joke) ;)


kenmcd's efforts in gatthering the resources lists have been multiplied a dozen folds!


- g

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:59 pm
by slyboots
And congratulations to Tonie - already a "core" member as far as a lot of us newbies are concerned  :D

Martin

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:05 pm
by tondelo
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

In the past I spent a lot of time hunting around and this is going to make thing much easier..

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:00 pm
by Daniel Tulp
Tonie wrote:@newart
You need to register on the site first, you can't use your forum credentials (you can register with the same credentials of cource).


First off, nice work, the community really needed this.

Euhm, why was the above quote done?

And maybe the featured extension is a bit off on the frontpage. Why should their work be posted on the frontpage and not that of others. Could be explained that theirs is appreciated more, but I know that can't be the case.

Also, be on the lookout for component naming that leads to better "ranking" in the alphabetical order of the extension site, like for instance "A really good component". The A will bring the component first in row.

Personally, I don't really like the color, but hey, who's counting right ;-).

Other than this, nice job.

Daniël

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:03 pm
by gsbe
Daniel Tulp wrote:And maybe the featured extension is a bit off on the frontpage. Why should their work be posted on the frontpage and not that of others. Could be explained that theirs is appreciated more, but I know that can't be the case.

Working on adding more as we speak - especially since the traffic influx brought down http://www.gigcalendar.net :( Needless to say, we JUST launched this extensions site are are working hard to update the info. Please bear with us as we try and focus on the directory listings and these types of details.

Daniel Tulp wrote:Also, be on the lookout for component naming that leads to better "ranking" in the alphabetical order of the extension site, like for instance "A really good component". The A will bring the component first in row.

How do you suggest it should work differently? We will certainly be on the lookout for this but there aren't really any good alternatives that I know of to alphabetical.

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:20 pm
by sdejong
Its very great, this is what we needed.
Thanx for the great job done.

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:17 pm
by paulmark
One Question. One Suggestion.

Q1. What process should be followed to submit new extensions to the list?

S1.  As a recent noob...i found some extensions to be dead easy to install and configure...while others require a more advanced understanding of joomla.  Future enhancement - Suggest that a 3 tier ranking system be applied (simple, intermediate, advanced) to help future noobs (and heros) in selection process.

Pmark

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:19 pm
by brad
paulmark wrote:One Question. One Suggestion.

Q1. What process should be followed to submit new extensions to the list?

S1.  As a recent noob...i found some extensions to be dead easy to install and configure...while others require a more advanced understanding of joomla.  Future enhancement - Suggest that a 3 tier ranking system be applied (simple, intermediate, advanced) to help future noobs (and heros) in selection process.

Pmark


Please read the 'Using this Site' link: http://extensions.joomla.org/content/view/15/63/

Suggestions, please make them here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,262.0.html

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:26 pm
by paulmark
Brad,
Thanks!  Will do.
Pmark.

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:30 am
by Daniel Tulp
gsbe wrote:Working on adding more as we speak - especially since the traffic influx brought down http://www.gigcalendar.net :( Needless to say, we JUST launched this extensions site are are working hard to update the info. Please bear with us as we try and focus on the directory listings and these types of details.

Ok then, I'm a patient man.

How do you suggest it should work differently? We will certainly be on the lookout for this but there aren't really any good alternatives that I know of to alphabetical.


Well, the best thing would be randomization, but I agree, this also isn't optimal. Another option could be by hits or ratings. But with the hits option, it would be very difficult for new projects to get anything done. Rating could be good, as long as people rate enough.

Keep up the good work.

Daniël

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:00 am
by gsbe
Daniel Tulp wrote:Another option could be by hits or ratings. But with the hits option, it would be very difficult for new projects to get anything done. Rating could be good, as long as people rate enough.


Luckily, the Extensions Directory already lets you list the top rated and most popular as you request! Enjoy.

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:56 am
by focalguy
How about the most activity like the forge already does?

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:09 pm
by cyanide
sweet !

that is great news  :)

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:24 am
by Comenius
Wow, this is so helpful it's incredible.  Thanks so much for putting this together.  Well done!!  :D

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:11 pm
by AmyStephen
I can't tell you how much fun this Extensions site is.

I was thinking -- how about adding in the Template Sites, too?

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:37 am
by paulmark
AmyStephen wrote:I can't tell you how much fun this Extensions site is.

I was thinking -- how about adding in the Template Sites, too?


Great Idea!  The template jungle could use some order.

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:39 am
by brad

Re: Discussion about: It's Time to Celebrate the Freedom — Yet Again!

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:35 pm
by tomh_cz
Hi,

I have to say one big thank to all those guys made this very good job !
I miss someting like this portal a long time and that one looks cool and quite efficient to use!

Well, just another good piece to make Joomla better  ;D