Project Support Request: [.NET MAUI Community Toolkit] Add .NET MAUI Community Toolkit to `Current Projects` Page on Website

brminnick commented 1 year ago

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Project Name: .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
Due by: NA
Description: Add .NET MAUI Community Toolkit to Current Projects page on .NET Foundation Website

Hi Friends!

Could we add the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit to the Current Projects page on the .NET Foundation Website?

Title: .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
Description: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a collection of reusable elements for application development with .NET MAUI, including animations, behaviors, converters, effects, and helpers. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks when building iOS, Android, macOS and WinUI applications using .NET MAUI.
Image Logo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/build/nuget.png
Project Website: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/

👇 Currently, the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit isn't featured in the Current Projects page

sbwalker commented 1 year ago

@brminnick The .NET Foundation website only includes official .NET Foundation Member Projects. Please submit an application to have the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit considered as an official .NET Foundation project. You can find more information about the process here: https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects.

brminnick commented 1 year ago

Hi @sbwalker! I'm a bit confused. We are members of the .NET Foundation.

The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits have been an official .NET Foundation Project since its inception in 2021.

👇 Here's some examples demonstrating our membership

NuGet Package Ownership

The .NET Foundation is an official Owner on NuGet of all of our NuGet Packages:

Monthly Standups Stream to .NET Foundation YouTube Channel

We livestream every Monthly Standup to the .NET Foundation YouTube channel

Previous .NET Foundation Work Tickets

I've worked with @ChrisSfanos to help resolve previous work tickets:

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects/issues/264

.NET Foundation in our README

Each of READMEs highlight that we are members of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

sbwalker commented 1 year ago

@brminnick My apologies... the reason for my confusion is that I do not recall the Project Committee reviewing a Project Application for .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, nor can I locate a project application in the .NET Foundation issues - https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects/issues). The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is also not represented on the .NET Foundation Project Trends site: https://www.dnfprojects.com/ where the Project Committee monitors ongoing activity of .NET Foundation projects. I will sync up with @ChrisSfanos to get more clarity.

brminnick commented 1 year ago

No worries - thanks!

I believe we were grandfathered into the .NET Foundation as members of the .NET Community Toolkit org on GitHub. It was previous "Windows Community Toolkit" until 2021 when @michael-hawker and I teamed to rebrand to the ".NET Community Toolkit" so that we could add more toolkits outside of the Windows ecosystem.

sbwalker commented 1 year ago

Ahh.... this makes sense now, as the Windows Community Toolkit is an official member of the .NET Foundation. I just noticed that Windows Community Toolkit is represented on https://www.dnfprojects.com and points to https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit - should it be replaced with the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit?

sbwalker commented 1 year ago

Also the Windows Community Toolkit is listed on the .NET Foundation website: https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/project-detail/windows-community-toolkit

brminnick commented 1 year ago

Right on! We wouldn't want to replace "Windows Community Toolkit" with ".NET MAUI Community Toolkit" because the Windows toolkit it still exists: CommunityToolkit.WinUI for example.

I see two paths forward:

Keep Windows Community Toolkit on the Official Projects page and add .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
👇 Rename "Windows Community Toolkit" to ".NET Community Toolkits", and update its logo, description and project link

.NET Community Toolkits

Image Logo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/build/nuget.png
Project Website: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/
Description: The .NET Community Toolkits offer a collection of reusable implementations that aim to simplify common development tasks for a variety of .NET frameworks. The toolkits are a collaboration with the community, Microsoft engineers, Microsoft MVPs, and the teams working on .NET technologies

ChrisSfanos commented 1 year ago

Hi folks - I'm happy to do either. From a user/Foundation visitor perspective, does it make sense to have two? Or is renaming/updating the existing entry to .NET Community Toolkits a better solution to drive overall traffic and exposure?

michael-hawker commented 1 year ago

Adding @Sergio0694 here too, something the three of us should probably discuss on a call and figure out the path forward here. As we have our "Community Toolkit" GitHub organization: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit which has various projects underneath it (e.g. the Windows Community Toolkit, the .NET Community Toolkit, and the MAUI Community Toolkit).

Thought we removed the '.NET Community Toolkits' from the learn page as that's confusing with the '.NET Community Toolkit' itself.

Anyway, from the foundation perspective should the 'projects' page represent individual projects within the foundation's organizations or only the organization-level entities? @ChrisSfanos @sbwalker

ChrisSfanos commented 1 year ago

Hey @michael-hawker - I don't think there is a hard and fast rule - I think it's really what's better from a community perspective. If having a separate entry for each project because they are distinct from a developer's perspective we can go that route. If it helps drive cross-traffic to both by having a single entry pointing to multiple items, then we should go that route

brminnick commented 1 year ago

That makes sense.

From a community perspective, the .NET MAUI community (mobile) and the Windows community (desktop) don't have a huge overlap, so I agree that it'd make sense to highlight both projects separately on the Current Projects page, despite both projects being in the same CommunityToolkit org.

ChrisSfanos commented 1 year ago

The works for me - so let's go with adding a .NET MAUI community toolkit entry

Please take a look at some existing Project entries and then drop in here your: 1) Project description 2) GitHub repo link 3) Any other site landing page you want to directly developers to

I'll grab the license and license link and add that

brminnick commented 1 year ago

Thanks @ChrisSfanos - Sounds good!

Title: .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
Description: The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a collection of reusable elements for application development with .NET MAUI, including animations, behaviors, converters, effects, and helpers. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks when building iOS, Android, macOS and WinUI applications using .NET MAUI.
Image Logo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/build/nuget.png
Project Website: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui

michael-hawker commented 1 year ago

@brminnick you have a typo in your GitHub Repo link it should be https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui

brminnick commented 1 year ago

Good catch - thanks! Fixed ✅

AlexRadch commented 1 year ago

I would suggest keeping Windows Community Toolkit and will add both the .NET Community Toolkit and the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit.

Title: .NET Community Toolkit
Description: .NET Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform. The toolkit is maintained and published by Microsoft, and part of the .NET Foundation.
Image Logo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/dotnet/blob/main/build/nuget.png
Project Website: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/introduction
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/dotnet

michael-hawker commented 1 year ago

@ChrisSfanos is there action on us here? Do you need us to open a PR somewhere to add these two extra projects to the list?

I also noticed that our Windows Community Toolkit listing doesn't have a 'Project Website' button like the others.

We're also migrating our repository to https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Windows, so we'll want to update the link ourselves for that:

Title: Windows Community Toolkit
Description: The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of controls for WinUI 2, WinUI 3, and Uno Platform developers. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building experiences for Windows with .NET.
Image Logo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Windows/blob/main/icon.png
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Windows
Project Website: https://aka.ms/windowstoolkitdocs

1kevgriff commented 3 months ago

Hey all - I'm trying to help clean some of these issues up. How's this look for everyone?

https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/project-detail/.net-maui-community-toolkit

glennawatson commented 3 months ago

Thanks again @michael-hawker for your patience. Closing this one but please open a new issue if there are any more issues with the content.

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