Re: [Plone-website] Currently listing 486 projects with 1040 releases

[Martin A. <opt...@gm...>]

Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:

> So I would like to propose super-categories like "for Plone 2.1" or "for  
> Plone 2.5", before you can browse through the products themselves. And I  
> propose a experimental-category, for not released products which only runs  
> with specific combinations of Plone and Zope.

Interesting idea.

> And I want to ask, whether the products are tested by some quality team  
> before they were listed on plone.org?

No, they are not. You can go there yourself right now and upload a 
product. We review the submission, but we don't test the actual code, 
because this would take a lot of resources that we don't really have 
(and honestly, there are a lot of things I'm simply not interested in 
testing). If we introduced too much red tape, the fear is that we'd stop 
people from contributing altogether or become too elitist in whose 
software we allowed in.

Please also see 
http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/third-party-products for some 
background on how you should evaluate third party products!

Now ... at the Plone Conference this Friday, we will have a workshop 
talking about the third party product conundrum and practical solutions 
to how we can make life easier for people like you. It's careful 
balancing act, but we've had a lot of discussions about it in the past. 
If you'd like to join in and you're coming to the conference (it's now 
sold out, I believe) then show up to this talk! Otherwise, watch out for 
some more words on this in the coming weeks.

Martin