extForge - Coming Soon - Community Thoughts?

[esoteric]

Greetings ExtJS Community!

I have been a member of the community for a while now and have been using ExtJS religiously for internal applications. I have been reading the forums for a while now and I have noticed several people have indicated that it would be nice to have an "ext forge" website, were people can post code snippets, host projects, etc.

After discussing it with my business partner, we have decided to setup extForge.com for the community. I am currently in the process of determining what is the best solution to create this site with, and I thought I would post on the forums to get the communities input on the matter.

Here are a few details about our plan for extForge.com. First we want to open this to the community as soon as possbile. Second we would like to do it for free, however (there is always one :) ), this will be dependent on community involvement, and the resources that are going to be used. My company is a small one, and we don't have an over abundance of resources, but we still want to do this. Our plan is to start out offering private project hosting for a fee, and public projects for free. We hope we can keep it this way, but we do not know at this point.

Please post ideas, comments, and concerns here. I do not have a timeline for when this will become available, but we want to do it soon.

Also, I would like to build the user interface using ExtJS and have it be a true testament to the great library, this will all depend on the solution we end up using.

-Erik

[dawesi]

extforge.org will be online this (easter) weekend. ext-ui.com and ext-ux.com will also be powered from this community-based site.

PS: after this weekend... any suggestions, coding help, etc is welcome... as you know... these things take time, and that's something most of us don't have much of. :-)

We're setting up a basecamp project for it so people can contribute until our own mashup is integrated into 'the forge'

cheers Chris

[esoteric]

So you have a system in place or it is all from scratch and in development?

[Lobos]

I replied about this in another post, but it should have been here:

Is that a private site or affiliated with extJS? I ask cause over the years I have found that these type of repository sites tend to confuse more than help, no disrespect as you are obviously trying to help, but they don't work in my opinion, you end up with things scattered all over the place.

If you check out joomla.org, you will see that they have a centralized extension repository as well as a forge / svn and i would suggest extJS.com set up something like this as well - for starters just a simple repository where users can add there extensions in a categorised type system. As time progresses a forge can also be added. I stress the word simple here, just start with something basic and build from there - this would be a nice way to showcase ext as well cause you could use it as a front end for the repository ;)

Keeping everything in the one place is best in my opinion.

-Lobos

[esoteric]

That was my goal when I thought of doing this, however I am reconsidering due to dawesi say he has something that is launching, but I may come back to it depending on the outcome.

[jgarcia@tdg-i.com]

extforge.org will be online this (easter) weekend. ext-ui.com and ext-ux.com will also be powered from this community-based site.

PS: after this weekend... any suggestions, coding help, etc is welcome... as you know... these things take time, and that's something most of us don't have much of. :-)

We're setting up a basecamp project for it so people can contribute until our own mashup is integrated into 'the forge'

cheers Chris

a year later and nothing. what's up? :)

[mjlecomte]

I heard there's another site in development.