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Improve the FME Hub experience to be more Collaborative

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  • June 30, 2017
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rylanatsafe
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FME Hub is a fantastic place for members of the FME Community to share their work and solutions with each other.

As the amount of content in FME Hub grows, and the usage increases, many items become flagged for updates - things break, or sometime enhancements are needed.

I think it would be amazing if the entire FME Hub had a more collaborative approach, perhaps similar to Git, where members of the FME Community could enhance existing items and fix bugs - even if they are not the content owner. This practice would promote more robust content, and ensure that content does not fall out of date as FME evolves.

What do you think? How often have you wanted to enhance an existing item? How often have you come across items in FME Hub that need to be fixed?

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geosander
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  • geosander
  • July 3, 2017

Great suggestion @RylanAtSafe! However, try to keep the FME Hub website (and the integration into FME Desktop) easy to use for users that are not familiar with Git (or similar versioning systems). You might want to introduce an "Advanced" switch to the FME Hub for this.

Another thing I noticed, is that I have some great transformers lying around (that have been developed as FMX plugins), but I am not able to share these, because the FMX is not accepted by FME Hub (it doesn't have the XML structure like the custom transformers you build in Desktop). Furthermore, they sometimes make use of additional Python files and I'm not able to attach those. A Git-like approach would also solve this issue.

fmelizard
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  • fmelizardSafer
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  • July 4, 2017
I even have a dream that customers could issue pull requests against Python code / fmx files that Safe originally put up, and then these could be currated by Safe and folded into updated versions. The future is bright. Keep encouraging us!

 

 

david_r
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  • david_rCelebrity
  • July 4, 2017
That's a dream even MLK could get behind! :-)
jwarren
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  • June 15, 2020

I am supprised some sort of pull request feature is not already implimented. I am finding some transformers state they have to use Python 2.7 which I am reluctant to use. However, after checking the code, there is no reason it can't be "Python 2 and 3". However as the transformer is not mine, I cannot make this change even though it would be a benifit to other users.

ebygomm
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  • ebygommEvangelist
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  • June 15, 2020
Have you left a comment against that transformer on the FME Hub? I've left comments previously and the relevant owners have amended the transformers very speedily.
jwarren
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  • June 17, 2020

It would be nice to do the work for them! I've done it locally, but is helpful to be able to easily share simple improvements/updates.

antoine
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  • antoineEnthusiast
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  • August 17, 2020

Any progress on this from Safe?

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