Hi Slicers, During the past few months, we have been hard at work crafting what will be the new backend for managing Slicer (or Slicer-based) application and extension packages. Later today, @Pierre-Assemat and I will meet with our UI/UX designer at Kitware to discuss the next version of the exte…

@jcfr could you refine the titles for the individual polls? For example, it is not clear to me what “Pros:” poll title corresponds to. Should that be “What I like about the current Extension Manager:”? Or something else?

[image] fedorov: refine the titles for the individual polls Thanks for the feedback. Let me know what you think.

Also, suggested additions for the polls (not sure into which category they fall): “stars” for the extensions (to me, this was a very weird feature that no one really used, due to the Midas login it relied upon - it should either be better implemented, or dropped) “download count” (in most cases, i…

What do you mean by “when using the web version, the URL is updated”?

stars rating “stars” for the extensions We talked about removing that. And instead, we were thinking to have anonymous “+1” system. download stats These data are from our test server. “download count” (in most cases, it is bogus, since it shows count only for the given build, so I think it sho…

[image] fedorov: What do you mean by “when using the web version, the URL is updated”? This should illustrate: [web-url-updated]

[image] jcfr: instead, we were thinking to have anonymous “+1” system. Would be cool if instead the users werr authenticated against Slicer discourse.

+1 is about the same as download count. Anonymous star system is not really good, as people may want to change their star rating. “download count” (in most cases, it is bogus, since it shows count only for the given build, so I think it should also be either refined, or removed) Yes, download co…

[image] fedorov: users werr authenticated against Slicer discourse GitHub would be even better, because you can log on to Discourse (and access many other Slicer resources) with your GitHub account, but you cannot do much else with a Discourse account.

Yes, download count of specific nightly builds don’t tell much, but you can get download count summed for a range of releases The good news is that we the new backend already has an endpoint to the get the stats. It turn a maps of stats for each revision. [image] Or you could get the the stats…

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