Re: Jenkins plugin site

[Arnaud Héritier]

Hi Gus,

  I really like the idea. As a Jenkins user I really would like to have such "marketplace" where we can easily find in a unified way all data about our plugins. This is really an important stuff to have from my POV for our users and I would love to have a similar stuff in Jenkins itself in the plugins manager.

  I don't know how I could help but for sure I'm supporting this

Arnaud

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Gus Reiber <gre...@cloudbees.com> wrote:

Hey all,

   So I have on and off pushed the idea that the Jenkins community could benefit greatly from an overhaul of the wiki based plugins site. As an ultimate goal, I don't see any reason we couldn't build something that approach a modern app store, like https://play.google.com/store, but for the short run, it seems like we should be able to improove upon the browsing experience of the existing list page and detail view.

Existing: 

• list: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins
  
• detail: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin

I think as a minimum, we ought to be able to provide a reasonable search interface and means of filtering plugins by maintainer, Jenkins core requirement, plugins labels, and installation count. Plugins should also be assigned to categories that map to Jenkins user expectations a bit better than the current list of ~30ish maintainer assigned labels do today. Ideally the user ought to be able to manage the list of all plugins by specific features of the plugin and by some suggestion of quality or currentness of the plugin.

At various points, my interest in bringing this value to the community has been great enough to assemble a couple of different prototypes and wireframes, attempting to generate interest. I have also had a chance to play with some prototypes from others all with what seems to me to be reasonable implementation paths. Attached are a few more recent sketches showing the gist of how we might handle searching and filtering as well as the plugin details.

Anyway, at the moment, the plugin site is maintained by our representatives here in the community. So it is really the will of the community that should be reflected in any efforts that are actually deployed and later maintained by our community. Thus again, I am looking for grass roots support for the effort, support that potentially includes some avenue for long term hosting and support.

So my questions are these: Is enhancing the plugin site really worth that degree of effort to the community? If you think it is, would you be willing to join the effort, both for the immediate development needs, but also for longer term support? Do you have any experience with other communities who manage to accomplish this sort of ends?

...and finally, could you help articulate a set of minimum requirements that would make overhauling the plugin site worth while?

Thanks in advance,

Gus

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