Marketplace for add-ons and products

Webpage/Marketing
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There are first projects and products using Operaton or provide integrations. I am wondering if the operaton.org site should list them, e.g. as “Marketplace”. Functionality similar to “Service Providers”. As a first step, a simple list with filtering should be enough and adopters could request to be added via issue like for service providers.

There are different adoptions to be listed: Commercial products (e.g. Valtimo, backoffice.plus), engine plugins (e.g. @cachescrubber ‘s adoption of the Mockito support), Rust crate for external task workers, Data Sharing Framework, etc.

Potential categories:

  • Name
  • Description
  • Type (Product, Plugin, Application, Add-On)
  • License (Commercial, MIT, Open Source (in general))
  • Contact
  • Operaton version compatibility

It would be a shame if such adoptions are buried in forum posts or need to be searched.

For a real marketplace there should be possibilities to comment, rate, measure. IMO this is not needed as first step. Having a list is already valuable.

WDYT?

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I like the idea of creating visibility to those projects, but I’m not sure if “Marketplace” is a good name. To me this sounds like a place where you can buy and download integrations into the product.

“Gallery”, “Catalogue”, “Tool Showcase” e.g. come to mind

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I would appreciate a marketplace (community repository or whatever name you like).

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I understand the concerns rgd. the name “Marketplace”. I was inspired by Visual Studio Code with the name.

How about “Hub”?

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“Hub” or “Operaton Hub” sounds nice to me!

I like your proposed page structure and content. Maybe the column “Operaton version compatibility” is a little hard to maintain, as we either need to monitor the projects or rely on the projects updating us reliably, but these are implementation details.

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I will provide a PR with a proposal for the page.

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Shouldn’t those product teams be asked whether they want to be listed?

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Definitely, I think we can find an approach similar to the way we handle the service providers page: an easy workflow to add themselves via PR, if they prefer to

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I have created a draft PR:

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The Hub page is now online and addition to it can be requested by an issue. We need to fill it now with life. I have already reached out to some candidates.

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