The plugins site, a replacement for the 'Plugins' wiki page

[Daniel Beck]

The other thread has been derailed a bit, so I'm restarting this discussion here. Thanks for your understanding.

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Hi everyone,

We've been talking about a new plugins site/index of some kind on and off for a while now.

It's been part of the Jenkins.io site redesign discussions last fall, and part of the 'vision' I posted to the wiki back then to move the discussions forward:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0+Website+vision+from+Daniel+Beck#Jenkins2.0WebsitevisionfromDanielBeck-Plugins

Just like we're moving fairly static content out of the wiki, into jenkins.io, we should do so with the plugins index. Right now, it's pretty terrible:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins

And FWIW the plugin manager's "Available" tab in Jenkins isn't much better…

We've been busy with Jenkins.io (the rest of it) and Jenkins 2 since those first discussions, so not much has happened in this area. But now, it's time we looked at this again. Gus is working on making this a reality, but we need input from you:

What are you looking for in a plugins index? What information should it contain? What are typical use cases that should be covered?

Please note that while we'll soon get some way to have plugin documentation on jenkins.io from the GSoC project, let's please not make this a discussion of the implementation details of how the plugin documentation gets sourced. Tons of plugins will continue to have their docs on the wiki, and I imagine we'll need to support that, as well as e.g. GitHub (and possibly more) locations in some way.