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Revision as of 15:45, 27 January 2009
Contents
EPIC Modernization Requirements Document
The Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC) is a popular and successful resource for the Eclipse community. It lists over 1100 Eclipse based products and drives thousands of click-thrus per month to some of the top rated products. Unfortunately, EPIC is hosted on an older content management system (CMS), so it is difficult to maintain and update. Therefore, we are starting a project to modernize EPIC and re-host it on a more modern updated CMS.
This document is to capture and prioritize all of the requirements for a new EPIC. The goal is to finalize the requirement by the end of March and begin implementation shortly thereafter.
Goals
- Dramatically increase the usability of through improved navigation and graphic design.
- Make it easier for solution providers to manage their product entries.
- Provide better linkage between EPIC site and the vendors’ update sites.
- Host EPIC on a new content management system.
Requirements
Usability
- Need the ability to tag prodcuts and navigate via a tag cloud.
- Products should be able to have multiple tags and product owners should be able to select and define tags for their products.
- A product needs to be able to be in multiple categories. Currently a product can only be in one category
- For plugins that have not been updated for a long time, we need to show that the information might be old and out of date.
Management and Administration
Social Networking Ideas
- We should allow a product to be voted up or down, similar to digg. Remove the vote 1-10 system in place now. Need to allow people to add a 'vote' graphic onto their site. We should introduce aging of votes, so votes expire after ### days.
- Need to maintain the RSS feeds for new and updated products
Update Sites
CMS Issues
- Current thinking is to host EPIC on Drupal
- We should integrate sign-on with existing Buzilla accounts
- Need some type of statement regarding scalability and performance based on existing usage [Nathan can you please add?]
Support for Training and Service Provider
- Need to be able to search/tag by geography and expertise
- Training calendar for Eclipse public courses