RE: [SM-USERS] site arrangement request...

[p d. t. <pdo...@an...>]

Absolutely.  There has been some amount of talk of forming a committee
to review all of the plugins and reorganize them accordingly.  A lot of
the decisions on how that is accomplished depends on how an
already-planned site redesign turns out.  Jimmy Conner has started a
pretty nice checklist that keeps track of all the current plugins in
regard to 1.2.x and 1.4.x, as well as things like register_globals=Off
and E_ALL support and even those that have switched to the new "fast"
plugin design.  It's not up for public consumption and needs to be
finished, but the idea is that we'd probably want to make this available
on the site some time soon.  It would be a way to avoid a complete site
design, which can then be put off (but I agree that it cannot be avoided
- it just needs some thought).

Jonathan, I am cc'ing you because I understand the site redesign is on
your plate.  I assume you saw the threads, mostly on the Devel list,
about this stuff (there were quite a few questions posed not only about
how to organize plugins, but how/if they should be controlled and/or
labeled as "official" and whatnot).  Most of those questions are tied
fairly tightly with the site redesign... do you have any timelines?  Do
you have any opinions on those other threads?

I apologize for not being on IRC for a few weeks (tech isssues), but I
am working on that at the moment and will chat with you when I get
there.

Cheers,

  Paul


> Since 1.4.x is a considerable change from 1.2.x, would it be possible
to
> revise the web site under the plugins section so that it is much
easier to
> determine which plugins are 1.4.x-specific, which are 1.2.x-specific,
and
> which will work either way?  Right now, with all the excessive
> click-throughs required to find this information (click to plugins,
then
> to
> category, then to details about a specific plugin, then to
plugin-version-
> X
> download screen, then download) I'm looking at having to burn 2-4
hours
> just
> finding and downloading all the correct plugins for an upgrade to
1.4.x.
> 
> As a suggestion, it would probably be useful to simply split the
plugins
> into 2 sections: 1.4.x+ and 1.2.x-.  The main category page could even
> default to, say, the 1.4.x+ compatible plugins and then have a link
near
> the
> top along the lines of "Click here for pre-1.4.x compatible plugins"
or
> something like that.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -ben
> 
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> Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer
> bto...@so...
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