NodeBB Plugin & Theme Contest Bonanza 2014

a_5mith

@julian You missed Tanners theme. Is it not good enough for entry? If I don't win, I'm taking my ball and going home!

julian

@Tanner Jury's out on that one, since it was started in August :shipit:

Also, it would happen to be the only theme on the poll, since Cucina was released Nov 2nd XD

a_5mith

@julian If we're only accepting plugins or themes that started in October, then doesn't that put nodebb-plugin-teamspeak, nodebb-plugin-codepen, nodebb-plugin-charts & nodebb-plugin-reddit out of contention too then? Seems strange to not accept a theme started before October, but plugins are fine. Mine included. Your competition, i can see why entering one theme into a theme competition is a little out there.

I'm also not sure about accepting plugins that don't work. Botler for example, as good as it sounds, has none of that functionality built in. It's just an admin menu that doesn't do anything.

From the ReadMe:

As of right now, this plugin is unusable. Currently this plugin is only interesting for other developers who want to have a shot at working on this.

julian

@a_5mith said:

Seems strange to not accept a theme started before October, but plugins are fine.

That's right (that it's strange), there should be no exceptions, so I'll have to look into the commit dates for those and cull the list a bit

a_5mith

@julian Sounds good. Just avoiding the riots. I know what forum members are like.

julian

@a_5mith Updated the shortlist with the removed entries and explanations. I'd really appreciate feedback from other users regarding our (unfortunately) playing fast and loose with the rules (and not really cementing them in the first place!)

a_5mith

@julian I suppose it's too late to do much more about it now, but for the next one, we should probably set a hard and fast rule that plugins or themes should have an initial publish date in npm of the month of the competition. So if someone wants to spend the next x months working on the theme of all themes, they could wait until the next comp to officially publish it to npm, this would encourage quality. As I certainly couldn't build a theme in a month.

Schamper

Hey, reddit plugin was released in october
@julian where is my explanation in that post

@a_5mith the botler does have a working automated task in it, it's just commented out...

a_5mith

@Schamper Yeah saw that, sorry. Wrote that post from memory, didn't finish reading the readme regarding the bot creator etc.

Scuzz

You should add the anchor plugin from @almost, im sure he wont mind.

Schamper

Here's a new plugin entry from me, hopefully this one will stay as a valid entry...

a_5mith

@Schamper I think entries were only valid through October.

Schamper

@a_5mith http://i.imgur.com/FO9wCIH.png

a_5mith

@Schamper Ah, well in that case, should be fine.

Tanner

@julian started in august, finished in october

Schamper

@Tanner and this

It's technically cheating starting right now but hey, I guess that's the benefits of the pre-signup

Tanner

Yeah I'm not sure if I'm on the same page as everyone else at this point.

@Schamper that's a good post to bring up, because it's vague, and leaves it up to them to choose. So, I'll wait until they make an actual decision and will withhold making judgments until then.

Schamper

@Tanner in my opinion, don't announce a contest if you're not allowed to start on your submission until a month later.

Also my post just got flagged for spam

a_5mith

Calm down dearies, it's not about the taking part, it's about the making of the plugin.

simonpegglike

julian

@a_5mith Is that Harold Saxon?

The second shortlist:

NodeBB Plugin & Theme Contest Bonanza 2014

Candidates for Best Plugin

Candidates for Best Plugin/Theme by a New Developer

Candidates for Best Theme