• Fabien Potencier
• 3 months ago
• 4

The plugin system gets better every day. During the last week, we have made some great enhancements to the system. Here are the main new features:

• You can now associate an image to a plugin. This image is used in the lists, the plugin information tab, and in the RSS feeds.
• When you want to join a plugin team, you now need to explain the reasons. Before, plugin leaders only received the request without further explanations. Now, they can accept or decline, based on something.
• You can now list the plugins by categories from the homepage. There is also a link to list all plugins, even those without any release yet.
• The system is now able to parse the changelog information from the package.xml file. This information is available in the new "Changelog" tab for each plugin. I have also added a FAQ to explain how it works.
• The RSS feeds have been redesigned to provide more information. The "recently updated" feed also have the changelog if available.
• Each user is now represented by a gravatar.

Comments

#1 Craig Mason said about 16 hours later

Great news Fabien. Just what we need to push for more 1.1 plugins (and existing plugin compatibility).

#2 Stephen Ostrow said about 22 hours later

Great to see more improvements, we really needed this. I have two questions:
1.) Who receives requests for "developer" if there is no "leader" yet?

2.) Is there eventually going to be a "wiki" tab? I still think this was a great addition to have the plugin wiki pages where people could communicate about caveats of the plugin and give examples, tutorials, and other information.

I guess a third would be will every plugin be given a category in the trac tickets?

#3 fabien said about 24 hours later

@Stephen Ostrow:

1/ if there is no leader for a plugin, then you can't join the team. The first step is for the leader to claim its plugin.

2/ We are working on these items. Each plugin will definitely have a wiki and a dedicated ticket system and SVN repository.

#4 halfer said 6 days later

Some great changes here.

Just so you know, I am playing with a "collapsible" forum system at the moment, with the possibility that we could have one forum per plugin. I am asking for opinions from the community in the General plugins forum now.

If this idea is popular, perhaps we could have a link from each plugin page to its dedicated discussion page?