On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:50:45PM +0200, Andreas Gohr wrote: > hi guys, > > > I agree that a manually created table would be quite some (unnecessary) > > work. > > I think I somehow missed the start of this discussion (or > misunderstood it). I thought the initial idea was to have some, > handpicked "featured" plugins? Then Hakan extended that idea by > building certain use case based feature sets at > http://www.dokuwiki.org/solutions > > Both cases should be very well managable in a manual way. But as I > said I might have missed something here. > > > I propose that we automatically aggregate data from the plugin > > pages (most data we want is available there already, other may be > > added) instead. We could make this step trivial by basing the > > repository plugin on the data plugin (if Andi agrees) which already > > provides flexible data aggregation. > > I checked the current repo plugin in at > http://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki-plugin-pluginrepo feel free to > hack away at it. > Yes, I think the idea of some favourite/default/well supported plugins is a good idea. If one searches at the moment one often gets quite a few similar 'possibles' and it's difficult to choose. If there's a subset of better supported plugins this might well make the choice easier. I've not been very active here so far because I'm away from home for a while. -- Chris Green