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Re: [EP-tech] please close the Bazaar

Hi All,

I think there is a positive case to be made for the Bazaar - it remains one of the easiest ways to package and deploy content in a modular fashion and is used quite routinely by a number of repositories and developers. A number of recent developments such as the Generic Reporting Framework, ORCID plugins, DataCite DOI plugin and the REF plugins (admittedly REF is only of interest to UK institutions) have been quite popular - and I believe there may be some new plugins on the way soon such as a plugin to support Digital Science's Dimensions badges. Working on a Bazaar plugin is also quite a useful focal point for developers from different organisations and institutions to collaborate on a particular bit of functionality where there is shared interest.

However I agree that there is a lot of old stuff in the repository that is no longer supported, out-of-date or buggy. We introduced a concept of accolades to try and make it clear which plugins are approved, supported and useful, and it should be possible to filter Bazaar plugins by accolades, as listed in the "Available" tab of an EPrints repository's admin Bazaar interface via a dropdown menu on EPrints 3.3.14+.  We'll look into making further changes to the "Available" Bazaar interface however to try and include more metadata (such as documentation links), and to filter out any plugins without an accolade by default.

Many thanks,

Will

From: Denis Pitzalis Via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: 25 March 2019 16:37 To: Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [EP-tech] please close the Bazaar

+1

On 25/03/2019 17:06, Yuri via Eprints-tech wrote:
Please do it.

It is full of old and buggy plugins. In github you've all the plugin
updated but Bazaar shows no update on them. No button  to check if a new
version is available and no documentation on how to discover it. How can
this works?


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