On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > At Wikimania, we had a good conversation and a proposal (that was > basically agreed upon by everyone in the room IIRC!) about creating a > "gold standard" for extensions, judging them based on their code > quality, compatibility with MediaWiki versions, tests, etc.
I was in that room and I agree that defining and implementing this "gold standard" is a good idea. For what I recall, factors considered included objective facts like compatibility tested with Jenkins, support for LTS, etc. Still, I don't see this as a substitution of user feedack, with its potential drawbacks but also with the uniqueness that such human feedback provides. Whenever we have this type of discussion, Wordpress is mentioned as a good example of a catalog of plugins with information useful for Wordpress users (meaning Wordpress admins, just like in the case of MediaWiki). Look for instance http://wordpress.org/plugins/feedweb/ Requires: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.9.2 Last Updated: 2014-8-21 Downloads: 90,268 ((((This first block is quite objective)))) Ratings 4 stars 4.8 out of 5 stars 5 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=5> 24 4 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=4> 1 3 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=3> 0 2 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=2> 0 1 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=1> 1 ((((The ratings we are talking about, they show also the amount of votes, it does draw a picture about this plugin.)))) Author Feedweb Research <http://profiles.wordpress.org/feedweb/> 1 plugin ((((You can see how prolific this developer is, and check data & feedback on their other plugins, if you wish)))) Support 3 of 3 support threads in the last two months have been resolved. ((((We could apply something similar with Bugzilla/Phabricator, and perhaps even Flow one day)))) Got something to say? Need help? View support forum <http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedweb> Compatibility WordPress +Plugin = Works! 4 people say it works. 0 people say it's broken. ((((This little module is especially useful, as it attempts to tell you about specific combinations of Wordpress and plugin versions, according to other users -- imagine if Jenkins could vote there as well)))) > IMO, that would be way more useful to me than arbitrary user ratings. Why not having both? -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
