I think both official and promoted plugins are good ideas. -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com/
On Oct 14, 6:16 am, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biggest pain point is the unmoderation. Search for > "autocomplete":http://plugins.jquery.com/search/node/autocomplete+type%3Aproject_pro... > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
