[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-9368) Dashboard(s) for easy news aggregation, twitter and easy additional/3rd party plugin installation and project template/creation

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-9368:
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notes from brainstorming:

Suggested name: "JBoss Central" (or JBoss Tools Central | JBoss Developer Studio Central dependent on the context)

There should be a flag for Show on startup which should be easy to toggle on/off to not be annoying.
And thus also have a preference for this in global preferences.

If we could find a layout (maybe simply tabs inside a form editor?) that would allow us to add sections like "Getting Started", "News", "Software/Update" etc. based on what makes sense in JBoss Tools and or JBDS that would be good.
 
News:
The news section should support aggregation from multiple RSS feeds, but present them in one "feed".
The news section should be configurable on product level so there can be different feeds dependent on bundle/product. For starters an active feed to use could be http://planet.jboss.org/view/all - but we probably want something more filtered in final version.

The news section should show a clickable header for the news item and a small text snippet/teaser for the content. (I would consider also putting in a relative time/date, i.e. "JBoss Tools SuperMan released" (2 days ago)) to get a feel of how new/old news items are.

Getting Started:
Should give you direct links to main New project wizards (i.e. New Dynamic Web Project, or New CDI Project which might just be New Dynamic Web Project being prefilled with the proper facet settings).

Access to project examples/tutorials and possibly also "New Server", "Runtime Detection setup" ?

Software/update (this might only just be for JBDS since we can't control/test it consistently in eclipse world).

If in jboss tools - maybe just easy access to MarketPlace ?

Search box where you can type in the feature/plugin you want to find (should search in both the id's and human text to be findable).

A list being filtered by the search box showing the matching (or just all) possible updates/installations that are available.

Should be able to distinguish between features we've provided, what is provided by others and their license. (how much of this is available in p2 metadata?)




 




 





> Dashboard(s) for easy news aggregation, twitter and easy additional/3rd party plugin installation and project template/creation
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-9368
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-9368
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.3.0.Beta1
>
>
> We should look into either using the welcome screen, a single "dashboard" editor or possibly multiple views to provide a "single place to start" for JBT/JBDS users.
> This work have separate parts (might consider splitting this out in separate jiras):
> A. Create (or reuse) a feed agregator to show
>     Make that feed customizable from plugin customization to allow JBDS to control it.
> B. Setup and workout best way to use p2 discovery API and what it means for our 3rd party updatesites?
> C. Integrate important File > New Wizards and/or project examples to provide front and center.

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