[dokuwiki-teams] Thoughts on selection of best Plugins & Templates
- From: Anika Henke <anika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki-teams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:02:45 +0000
Hi teams (especially templates/plugins and documentation teams),
A while ago I set up http://demo.selfthinker.org/ where I originally
planned to provide a select choice of templates and plugins. I really
like how you can test the 30 different templates very easily; it gives
you a much better impression than the screenshots on
dokuwiki.org/template and has a certain "coolness factor". ;-)
But I don't think I will keep it, because I think something like
demo.dokuwiki.org with *officially* chosen templates and plugins makes
much more sense!
I talked to Andi about it and he agreed, but only if those
plugins/templates are checked and can be trusted.
As there were talks on the mailinglist (and other places) before about
providing a "best of" plugins/templates somewhere, I think this would be
a good place to put those.
One member of the plugins/templates team could pick a plugin/template of
his/her choice that he/she thinks is worth being put on
demo.dokuwiki.org. There should be some kind of analysis with at least a
summary of pros and cons. (I guess, plugin/template authors shouldn't
pick their own plugins/templates, but can ask a team member to do it.)
And when a second member of the team agrees to that, the plugin/template
could be added to the demo, together with a page of its own including
some data (*not* the same as on dokuwiki.org) and a playground page.
Unfortunately not all plugins could be presented sufficiently, as some
need admin permissions to see them in action. And I guess we shouldn't
give admin rights to anonymous users. Or should we? We could reset the
wiki every hour or so to prevent misuse ...
As I was mainly looking at a lot of templates a while ago, here is an
uncomprehensive list of what could be checked and rated:
* Update frequency, compatibility to DokuWiki releases
* Maintainabilty, extensibility
* Innovation, originality, beauty (yes, this is very subjective, but
important nonetheless)
* Must-haves: style.ini, validity, accessibility, security, rtl & print
styles
* Info: doctype, extra functionality
* Summary, pros & cons
Maybe I could put that list into the wiki and we enhance it there ...
From my sketchy knowledge of the existing templates, I guess maybe
about 15 would "pass the test". As there are much more plugins, I guess
there could be maybe 70 plugins (that's 10%) in the end?
Of course, they should be re-checked every now and then.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Anika
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