Addons in the Addons-Part of icms.org

I'm not pretty sure, but I think I read a threat about this somewhere. Now you're setting up a new final release. You're talking about the redesign of impresscms.org. I think, bleekk is workin on the redesign.

According to all these news, what about re-organising the addons-part? Move the old final releases to a special section (maybe a section for 1.1.x-modules, 1.2.x-modules and 1.3.x-modules..) and make subsections for content-modules, contact-modules, community-modules and so on. (closed to the solution on impresscms.de!) So we could write something about the modules, make a new download-part for modules, which are tested and got a final-release for 1.3. There are some really old modules, I'm not sue, if anyone tested them anywhere.
By this way it would be much simplier for new users, which are searching for running modules for the current Version. I would help to test the modules for compatibilyty, work on the language-files and I would write about the module (what a kind of module?, how to handle the module? ...) For the moment it's really difficult for new users, which are just jumping in working with ICMS to find working modules.

Some good ideas there - we've had a few threads for ideas about addons... started by Underdog and fiammybe

There's a few ideas we discussed including:

Grading the modules on their compatibility
Grading the modules on their requirements (libraries, frameworks etc)
Looking for required modules where no compatible ones exist
and so on....

The downloads area on ImpressCMS.de is very good - and I think we can adopt some of the ideas there as well.

I've a few ideas I need to post on this later.

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Would be cool to handle the categories like in imlinks: set different Categories to one file, so we could filter by different categories.

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I think so, too. For the basic order it would be better to organize like they do. With some more categories (like requirements->framework, Release-Candidates/Finals or something like this) we could filter whatever we want to.
The same of course for themes, templates...
@McDonald: any way to implement these category functions to wfdownloads, too?
Or does anyone have an idea how to handle this with the current functions of the module?

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Think WFDownloads and imLinks are pretty similar when looking at the database tables.
The only difference is that imLinks has an extra table for the alternate categories (imlinks_altcat).

So you think, we could use this in wfdownloads, too? with some little changes in the code of course..

Could be a nice addition... and if you can think of any way to allow wf-download to use imtagging as well... better still!