FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: plugins, and their 'activity' / 'maintenance'

[Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Gohr wrote:
> Jay Dickon Glanville writes:
> 
> >Salutations,
> >
> >I'm beginning to get a little worried.
> 
> Which I can perfectly understand :-). I'm thinking about this my self for a 
> while... I have an idea about a plugin repository outside the Wiki (maybe 
> connected to the same auth backend). I'll just scribble away some of my 
> ideas how I imagine it:
> 
> - database driven
> - located at plugins.dokuwiki.org
> - developers can upload plugin
> - developers can upload updates to existing plugins
> - maybe users can upload corrections as well
> - users can comment
> - user can vote: works for me with Dokuwiki version X, does not work for me 
>  with Version X
> - The plugin manager connects to plugins.splitbrain.org to list available 
>  plugin, and to check for updates
> - plugins can be tagged to categorize them
> - probably more I just forgot
> - users could easily see the health status of a plugin based onthe user 
>  votes (work/don't work)
> - maybe special users could even do security audits, which would give a 
>  plugin an extra point or something
> - probably more I just forgot
> 
> What do you all think of it?

To keep it short: I really like the idea so I vote for it.

Regards
chi

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