The best working plugin site I know of is Mozilla's addon site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Maybe worth taking a deeper look at it, I'll ask Rey to share his experience as community manager. Jörn On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Diego A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I agree with all the points raised by Yehuda and Jorn, but unfortunately > Mike, the biggest problem of all is Drupal. > In a nutshell :- > - The navigation is shocking > - Issue management is long winded and painfully time-consuming > - So is uploading new files / creating new releases > I feel Yehuda and Jorn's points are great, but they focus primarily around > giving jQuery user's better access to plugin - which is undeniably a > must-have great idea. However, The system must also cater for those who do > (and will) voluntarily maintain their projects within the community. > With that in mind, I recently moved all my plugins to Google code for the > following reasons :- > - Sub-version access > - Easy navigation > - Easy-to-use issue management system (with configurable email alerts) > - WIKI (for project documentation) > - Ability for project collaboration > Hope that helps in some way... > Cheers, > Diego A. > > > 2008/10/13 Mike Hostetler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 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 >> >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > Diego A. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
