[keycloak-dev] Community extensions and examples

[Bill Burke]

One more thing:

Broken examples are akin to documentation that is incorrect.   It pisses 
people off and makes Keycloak look bad.  Moving examples to a different 
repo that is only maintained by community won't get maintained.  That's 
a fact.


On 6/29/17 5:45 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> -1000. But you've already done this with the quickstarts against my 
> wishes.  You know why, but I'll rehash anyways:
>
> * Examples will get out of sync
>
> * Examples will end up not working
>
> * Examples need to be tied to a specific release as APIs and SPIs change
>
> * Users won't know they exist
>
> * Examples won't pick up IDE refactorings of our SPIs and APIs because 
> people will forget to include them.
>
> There's really no good reason to have quickstarts and examples in a  
> separate repo and a separate build other than "Wildlfy does it."
>
>
> On 6/29/17 5:44 AM, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>> +1 that would be great
>>
>> On 2017-06-28, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>> At times there are extensions and examples that we don't want to 
>>> include in
>>> the main repository. This could be for several reasons, including:
>>>
>>> * We don't have the resources to maintain and support it
>>> * We don't believe it's generic enough
>>> * Examples that are to complex
>>>
>>> However, these can still be useful for some people. So I'm thinking 
>>> about
>>> how we can provide community maintained extensions and examples.
>>>
>>> A very simple idea would be to add a page on our website that links 
>>> to the
>>> relevant repository and documentation. To contribute you would setup 
>>> your
>>> own Github repository, documentation and also a download if you 
>>> want. Then
>>> you'd send a PR to the website to add your extension or example.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
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