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

Jay Dickon Glanville wrote:

Salutations,

I'm beginning to get a little worried.

I just found out that the second plugin that I wanted to add to my
DokuWiki installation is no longer being actively maintained.  This
makes my success-with-plugins statistics 0 out of 2.

The first plugin I wanted to install was the GraphVis plugin
(http://wiki.ioslo.net/dokuwiki/graphviz).  Unfortunately, according
to the website, "this is slightly broken as of 2005-06-22".  Well, I
guess I'm not going to use this one.

The current plugin I wanted to install is considered one of the most
popular plugs, according to the wiki:plugins page
(http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3Aplugins).  It's the gcalendar
plugin.  However, according to the plugin's page
(http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:gcalendar), this plugin's
development / maintenance has been discontinued.

I don't want to install a plugin that isn't actively being maintained.
I have worries about introducing functionality to the users that
might fail or have to be removed at the next upgrade.  (Give child
candy, take it away, give child candy, take it away, watch child cry.)
Call me cautious.
It seems that your general requests are being dealt with by people much more knowledgeable and experienced than me. For your specific plugins, though, I think I might be able to help.
I just finished a plugin that is designed to replace the graphviz plugin (and the gnuplot plugin, and any other plugin that calls an external program and puts the results in the wiki page). It's working on my computer, but I haven't had time to package it up and document it. If you want me to send you a copy of the plugin right away, let me know.
I also vote for some way of noting activity and development of plugins. If there was a way to get a bug tracker for each plugin (maybe something like Esther has for her plugins on her site, or some other specially designed bug/feature tracker), that would be great too. I found it very confusing to try to parse through the plethora of comments at the bottom of each plugin page, each comment possibly including snippets of code and replies and replies to replies. 

Thanks,

Jason

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