Bazaar, the extension marketplace

luceos

Bazaar is the first extension released under the new Flagrow, something I've announced on our insiders mailing list. Flagrow has grown to a more professional project with both @jordanjay29 and @clarkwinkelmann joining me, aside from two others (an expert designer/frontend developer and a seasoned devops) who are not active in this community.

This extension would not have seen the light of day without the amazing work by Clark who not only made the proof of concept but did a lot of the initial work!

We're forming a cooperative together as we speak, called Gravure, which will provide at least one other Flarum-related service in the near future. I think it's even mentioned on our website ?

Feel free to join to join our insiders list, because we will be announcing other cool stuff very soon ?

The insiders mailing list is for everyone to be informed about Flagrow news first hand! People on our insiders list will also receive benefits to our paid services in the future.

blackjelly

awesome! No longer have to log on the terminal.

blackjelly

luceos Do not understand the development can also join?

jordanjay29

blackjelly Just the insider's list.

blackjelly

I installed the plug-in "504 Gateway Time-out".

jordanjay29

Sinamics

luceos
You and your team makes our day so easy. Thank you for the effort and all the hard work creating all these extesions. I'm taking my hat off to you.

Keep up the excelente work.

luceos

blackjelly could you please create an issue on github. This is a very new extension that might not work on all environments, especially on shared hosting. I'm willing to take a look though.

And please don't mention Jordan, he's not a developer for this extension.

Sinamics thanks for the praise, this was very much a team effort!

jordanjay29

luceos I'm the official Bazaar cheerleader.

amdad

@luceos WOW. Cool stuff here.

Do you think, part of that code may be used as official core marketplace?

AngelAvila

luceos As usual you are bringing the best extensions for Flarum! Amazing job and congratulations for that huge step on the Flagrow team!

Just one question, I am testing it but there are seem to be a few extensions not being available to install, BBCode Helper for example. Is it normal?

In advance thank you so much again! Ill buy you a cup of coffee in a moment ?

luceos

AngelAvila I'd love to hear which extensions you miss. Bazaar is filtering extensions based on your flarum version.

Thanks for your kind words ?

amdad

luceos amdad ? ?

Sinamics

jordanjay29

neoneosa

This extension is a bit dangerous. Ive installed an extension using bazaar, after that, my forum went blank. I luckily found the culprit, but i think you should somehow check for dangerous extensions...

AngelAvila

luceos Thanks for the reply!

So far I have tried to Install the following extensions with no luck:

BBCode Helper
Chat
Birthdays
Flagrow Split
Widgets

I ran a composer update a few minutes ago and tried to install again, but still no luck.

luceos

AngelAvila if you are able post to our github issue tracker, it helps a lot so we can identify your environment and any potential causes of this behavior. Most likely it's related to restricted memory though.

AngelAvila

luceos Just did it. Thank you so much for the attention! Hope my information provided on GitHub helps!

luceos

amdad now that I am sitting down and have the time to answer your question without hurrying it.. Here it goes.

The Flagrow marketplace was initially created so that we can offer paid extensions eventually, for Gravure has a long-term commercial mindset. The result, Bazaar, does a bit more and solves a problem many of us faced. Our goals for Bazaar are quite ambitious and most likely will require us to maintain this extension even when Flarum itself offers marketplace functionality.

Whether the core team is interested in parts of our code has to be seen. Conceptualisation of a possible marketplace has taken place, but the definite form has not been decided on. Nevertheless the core team can expect full cooperation from us upon request and collaboration on that functionality if they wish.

luceos

Tagged 0.1.0-beta.3 which removes the timeout for the install and uninstall ajax requests. This might solve issues you might have. These were changes I forgot to commit at home ?

amdad

luceos Thanks for reply. I understand. For example http://octobercms.com/plugins it's official marketplace where free and commercial plugins are together. One way it support project and another authors.
"One to rule them all" ? Maybe it will end up like this? Or you want Bazaar authors community to stay independent?