The biggest pain point is the unmoderation. Search for "autocomplete": http://plugins.jquery.com/search/node/autocomplete+type%3Aproject_project You'll get 10 results of which at least 50% are crap. But there is no way to tell, ratings aren't even displayed in the results, most plugins have only one or two votes (from the author?) anyway. The search result displays "0 comments" for each one, while there is no way to add comments(??).
Things that could help: * promoted plugins: get a few dedicated people with broad knowledge with the plugin landscape to promote plugins from a single category, like autocomplete (bad example, as that is going to be part of jQuery UI) * official plugins: make plugins maintained by jQuery team members official and highlight them in an appropiate way (jQuery homepage, some wiki page); that would include work from Brandon Aaron, Mike Hosteler, Ariel Flesler and myself * plugin reviews: Thats what jqueryburgers.com is supposed to do some time soon: Describe criteria and review plugins accordingly. Revisit plugins when their author improved things that were lacking before. This makes sense to be combined with the promoted plugins list One criteria for reviewing plugins could be the presence of appropiate metadata, paving the way to automated plugin dependency management. Jörn On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Mike Hostetler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone- > > I'd like to start a discussion on how we can improve the plugins > repository to better fulfill the needs of the community. When we > first created the plugins site, there were a lot less plugins. As > jQuery's popularity continues to rise, the need for additional > features for plugin authors is growing. > > As the person most familiar with the plugins site, I get a decent > amount of requests for tweaks here and there. Unfortunately, because > of the choice of using Drupal with Drupal's Project module, the amount > of features that can be easily turned on is small. I've been very > cautious at modifying the source code of the Project module for many > reasons. I'm in touch with the leaders of the Project Module, having > met up with them at the last Drupalcon. Currently, there is ongoing > work on the Project module for Drupal.org, and the Project module > remains the last major issue in upgrading Drupal.org to Drupal 6. So, > this problem is bigger then jQuery. > > What I'd like to solicit is feedback on the following: > > - What works with the current plugins site, what are it's strengths? > - What doesn't work, where does it fall down? > - What are the top 5 major features missing from the current site? > - Are there any other open source project management solutions that > are worthy of consideration to replace Drupal and the Project module? > (PS. Because of the work involved in this, I would consider this only > as a last resort) > - Any other feedback is appreciated > > Thanks, > Mike Hostetler > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
