New website missing a lot of community packages

[ChrisChinchilla]

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The new website here: https://vale.sh/explorer

Is missing a lot of popular community-maintained rule sets, including all of mine, and I know that at least mine have always tried to follow whatever the best practice at the time was for ensuring that they showed up in lists of available rule sets. For a while, we also encourage people to use the GitHub tag so people could find styles. In the past with Vale desktop there was also an older library JSOn file, like the one now feeding this new page.

What's the best way now to try and get a simple, easy to maintain process for those who create rule sets to ensure that others can find them? As the process has changed several times and rule sets always seem to get lost along the way each time it changes.

This is kind of a bug and a question for discussion…

[jdkato]

The Explorer page didn't change (in terms of what packages are listed) in the website update.

The GitHub tag still works and I add it to all the packages I maintain.

The JSON library file has existed for years (it's what allows users to list packages by name instead of URL in the .vale.ini).

Eventually, I'm going to expand the Explorer to include individual rules as well as more packages. I don't know exactly what that process will look like, but I don't think much has really changed or regressed recently.

[jdkato]

In the meantime, I've added a link to the vale-linter-style tag.

[ChrisChinchilla]

Hmm, odd; it's not the first time it's happened after a website change, but OK. Mostly, as some of these "3rd party" styles are as popular, if not more popular than inbuilt ones, it would be good to have a nice way for people to find things, and we do have "systems" in the community for discovery. Happy to brain storm it.