5.7 submissions
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Anyone submitting to the 5.7 Marketplace.
If your submission is a port/update of a pre 5.7 addon or theme to 5.7, please add a comment to that effect with your submission, noting what changes have been made.
Doing so will, in many cases, enable the PRB to get your submission through faster.
Failing to add such a note means that it will likely take a lot longer to review.
If your submission is a port/update of a pre 5.7 addon or theme to 5.7, please add a comment to that effect with your submission, noting what changes have been made.
Doing so will, in many cases, enable the PRB to get your submission through faster.
Failing to add such a note means that it will likely take a lot longer to review.
Is there any guidelines or documentation available on creation of 5.7 packages? E.g. best practices, etc.
I wish there was. There is various hearsay, but so far the only clarification we have is when a prb comment critiques something in a core team submission, and even that is not necessarily official guidance, it could just be the opinion of one core team member.
My current rule of thumb is that if its a 5.7 port of an existing marketplace item, by an established developer, the changes are the minimum needed for 5.7, and it works, then it gets approved without any further investigation.
If there is new functionality or the way it works has necessarily had to change for 5.7, then it gets looked into further. So far nothing that falls into this category or a higher level of new code has been in the prb long enough to be approved.
My current rule of thumb is that if its a 5.7 port of an existing marketplace item, by an established developer, the changes are the minimum needed for 5.7, and it works, then it gets approved without any further investigation.
If there is new functionality or the way it works has necessarily had to change for 5.7, then it gets looked into further. So far nothing that falls into this category or a higher level of new code has been in the prb long enough to be approved.
OK, we'll wait then.
My personal opinion (as far as it matters), I think documentation should have been priority #1 prior to the whole marketplace renewal. But let's not go too deep into that matter...
My personal opinion (as far as it matters), I think documentation should have been priority #1 prior to the whole marketplace renewal. But let's not go too deep into that matter...
I agree, too many developers are wasting too much time discovering how to make addons for 5.7 by braille. Then the prb has no guidance on what is good or bad practice.
The net effect will be an unnecessary diversity and lowering of net quality. All things that the fresh start for the 5.7 marketplace could have avoided to actually raise net quality of the marketplace if only the guidance had been in place.
The net effect will be an unnecessary diversity and lowering of net quality. All things that the fresh start for the 5.7 marketplace could have avoided to actually raise net quality of the marketplace if only the guidance had been in place.
