Hi everyone, As previously discussed[1], Jenkins users would benefit from a better plugins index. Right now, all they have is the 'Plugins' wiki page[2] and there's so much wrong with it, one wonders whether it gets anything right. Which leaves users to basically use Google to find things -- clearly not a great situation for a tool like Jenkins, whose major appeal is in the large and growing number of plugins and what they enable users to do.
So Gus and Michael McCaskill have recently worked on building a better plugins index -- the plugins site, to be integrated with jenkins.io -- which itself was only recently overhauled to be actually useful for more than just the changelog. Initial designs were presented a few months ago[3]. A lot of progress has been made over the last few weeks, and we finally managed to deploy the work in progress to a public site: http://cloudbees-plugin-site-staging.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ This pretty much looks like the finished site could. A few things worth mentioning: * Index page shows most installed, recently updated, and trending (i.e. rapidly growing adoption) plugins. * Shiny URL for plugins (which will be something like plugins.jenkins.io/git once productive) * Three different list visualizations: Grid, List, and Table. * Filter by maintainer (which as metadata is a bit of a mess due to inconsistencies in POMs, but we try) * It includes the Jenkins wiki page contents of the plugin (for now, could do something like allow opt-in to GitHub based docs in the future) There's a few glitches left, but we wanted to get this work in progress out to get your feedback. Things like which plugin categories show up, and how they're labeled, is really easy to change at any time, so don't let that distract you. Love it? Hate it? Please let me know! Daniel 1: Roughly starting at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jenkinsci-dev/EMbE3a4u8nA/WiNpTSM4CgAJ 2: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins 3: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jenkinsci-dev/2nqWoE1FfOo/2EX2-l9dBQAJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/679434B9-A494-4775-9153-3A816D46FB5E%40beckweb.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
