Please provide feedback on the plugins site (work in progress)

[Daniel Beck]

Hi everyone,

Gus Reiber and Michael McCaskill have been working on a replacement for the plugins wiki page[1] for a while now. While the bar for improving on that is pretty low, we've tried to build something that's actually useful, and hopefully even superior to just googling for plugins. Previous discussions on this effort can be found on the Jenkins developers' mailing list[2].

We've finally reached a state good enough to show, and I'm inviting all of you to try it and provide feedback:

http://cloudbees-plugin-site-staging.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Remember that it's still a work in progress. If you find bugs, please let us know about them! Please also note that the menu at the top doesn't work except for the 'Plugins' menu item.

The final version will live on https://plugins.jenkins.io or a similar URL, and be integrated with jenkins.io.

What do you think?

Daniel

1: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins
2: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jenkinsci-dev/CCaGirnMSt8/1XmovelKCwAJ

[Slide]

The search doesn't seem to do anything, is that expected in this version? I entered "Email" and pressed the search button and nothing happened.

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[Daniel Beck]

> On 06.09.2016, at 01:04, Slide <slide...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The search doesn't seem to do anything, is that expected in this version? I entered "Email" and pressed the search button and nothing happened.

It appears you need to press the enter key for now :-(

[Slide]

Ok, that works. How will plugin maintainers manage what is shown when a plugin is selected? Also, the "Download" option seems a little odd since most people would use the plugin manager in a Jenkins install to do plugin installs, or is that changing?

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[Daniel Beck]

> On 06.09.2016, at 01:47, Slide <slide...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok, that works. How will plugin maintainers manage what is shown when a plugin is selected?

The data is collected from the update center, which in turn uses a combination of POM and wiki (maintainer, plugin name, release date, …), the infra-statistics (installation counts), and plugin wiki page (documentation). The idea is that all of these sources are periodically updated -- not sure how well that's currently implemented though.

We may implement something like Git repo based plugin docs in the future, but that would be opt-in.

> Also, the "Download" option seems a little odd since most people would use the plugin manager in a Jenkins install to do plugin installs, or is that changing?

Nothing's changing in Jenkins. I think we'll make the 'download' a popup explaining about the plugin manager in Jenkins, and still allow manual download for people with offline instances -- basically deemphasizing the "here's a file for you" part of the "Download" button.

Also, in the thread on the dev list I suggested we could do something like a "Tweet this" button -- "Download in Jenkins" -- which would only require you to configure a Jenkins URL in HTML 5 local storage, or a cookie, to make it work from JS. This would require a change in Jenkins though.

[Slide]

It would be really cool to be able to select a set of plugins and download a zip or something with all those plugins included so that people with offline instances don't have to worry about downloading lots of different plugins and installing them separately. 

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[Simona Avornicesei]

Hi all,

I find it weird the need to focus on the search box for the search criteria to show up (as a popup). It's a click wasted. I would have expected to have the filter criteria on the left side of the screen and default display to show the the most installed plugins.

Also, the 2-letter icons make no sense without a legend or tooltip.

I haven't tested the search functionality yet.

All the best,
Simo