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* **Status**: Needs Solution Definition
* **Source**: Prioritization-2024
* Only present maintained and currently operational ones. Improve extension discoverability and ease installation process.
* At the moment extension developers have too few interface stability guarantees, and the user experience of installing and upgrading extensions is poor. There are a lot of open questions around this since OpenRefine’s architecture is quite uncommon, so there does not seem to be an established off-the-shelf model we can adopt. Unsucessfull grant applications: [2024-DEF](https://openrefine.org/funding#2024-def) and [2023 Mozilla Infrastructure Fund](https://openrefine.org/funding#2023-mozilla-infrastructure-fund) grant application. See also [this conversation in the forum](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-ux-of-extension-install-and-butterfly/52), and the first version of the extension page released in 3.9.0 [#7012](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/pull/7012). See also [Antonin's take on extensibility](https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/my-roadmap-for-openrefine/#extensibility).
* At the moment extension developers have too few interface stability guarantees, and the user experience of installing and upgrading extensions is poor. There are a lot of open questions around this since OpenRefine’s architecture is quite uncommon, so there does not seem to be an established off-the-shelf model we can adopt. Unsucessfull grant applications: [2024-DEF](https://openrefine.org/funding#2024-def) and [2023 Mozilla Infrastructure Fund](https://openrefine.org/funding#2023-mozilla-infrastructure-fund) grant application. See also [this conversation in the forum](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-ux-of-extension-install-and-butterfly/52), and the first version of the extension page released in 3.9.0 [#7012](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/pull/7012). See also [Antonin's take on extensibility](https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/my-roadmap-for-openrefine/#extensibility) and the [0utreach-2024 Better testing utilities for extension development](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/GSoC-Outreachy-2024-Ideas#better-testing-utilities-for-extension-development) proposal.

### Better support of MARC format
* **Score**: 44
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* A GUI that would highlight what could be modified and what are the current configuration files even if it cant be modified from the menu.
* Related issue: [#2796](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/2796)

### Better testing utilities for extension development
* **Status**: Needs Solution Definition
* outreachy-2024
* [read more here](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/GSoC-Outreachy-2024-Ideas#better-testing-utilities-for-extension-development)

### Better test coverage for importers and exporters
* **Status**: Needs Solution Definition
* outreachy-2024
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