+1 to GitHub readme as well. Why put the same doc in 2 places.


On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 1:30:24 PM UTC-7, slide wrote:
>
> +1 for the effort, ideally I'd like to see something that can pull 
> information from the github README.md files and have people push updates to 
> the descriptions that would be shown to their own plugin repositories. 
> Perhaps some of the other information could be pulled from a metadata file 
> that was also in the plugin repository. 
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:02 PM Gus Reiber <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>    So I have on and off pushed the idea that the Jenkins community could 
>> benefit greatly from an overhaul of the wiki based plugins site. As an 
>> ultimate goal, I don't see any reason we couldn't build something that 
>> approach a modern app store, like https://play.google.com/store, but for 
>> the short run, it seems like we should be able to improove upon the 
>> browsing experience of the existing list page and detail view.
>>
>> Existing: 
>>
>>    - list: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins
>>    - detail: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin
>>
>> I think as a minimum, we ought to be able to provide a reasonable search 
>> interface and means of filtering plugins by maintainer, Jenkins core 
>> requirement, plugins labels, and installation count. Plugins should also be 
>> assigned to categories that map to Jenkins user expectations a bit better 
>> than the current list of ~30ish maintainer assigned labels do today. 
>> Ideally the user ought to be able to manage the list of all plugins by 
>> specific features of the plugin and by some suggestion of quality or 
>> currentness of the plugin.
>>
>> At various points, my interest in bringing this value to the community 
>> has been great enough to assemble a couple of different prototypes and 
>> wireframes, attempting to generate interest. I have also had a chance to 
>> play with some prototypes from others all with what seems to me to be 
>> reasonable implementation paths. Attached are a few more recent sketches 
>> showing the gist of how we might handle searching and filtering as well as 
>> the plugin details.
>>
>> Anyway, at the moment, the plugin site is maintained by our 
>> representatives here in the community. So it is really the will of the 
>> community that should be reflected in any efforts that are actually 
>> deployed and later maintained by our community. Thus again, I am looking 
>> for grass roots support for the effort, support that potentially includes 
>> some avenue for long term hosting and support.
>>
>> So my questions are these: Is enhancing the plugin site really worth that 
>> degree of effort to the community? If you think it is, would you be willing 
>> to join the effort, both for the immediate development needs, but also for 
>> longer term support? Do you have any experience with other communities who 
>> manage to accomplish this sort of ends?
>>
>> ...and finally, could you help articulate a set of minimum requirements 
>> that would make overhauling the plugin site worth while?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gus
>>
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