Re: [ jEdit-users ] Templating plugins (was: Kudos to the developers)

[mike d. <md...@je...>]

begin Steve Jakob quotation:
> - grouping plugins on Plugin Central (and perhaps in the plugin
> manager) based on the sorts of functional areas mentioned above. The
> list of plugins is now quite extensive (which is great!), and can be
> daunting to a new user.  Grouping them by functionality would make
> them easier to browse.

If you'll notice on the Community site, Slava has recently posted an
article to try to hash out a category scheme for the plugins. Once this
is done, I'll update Plugin Central and the XML backend to group plugins
based on categories, Slava will update the plugin manager to show
plugins in their groups, and we'll have this functionality before
4.1final. All we need now is more category suggestions.

> - log plugin downloads and display the counts on a web page. New users
> could then see what others are using.

Take a look at http://plugins.jedit.org/stats/. I have raw data and
general site stats back through February of this year. In the past, I
have generated ad hoc reports based on this data to generate plugin
download counts, which some folks have seen when I've popped into
#jedit. I could probably add a page to the site that uses the raw data
to display some sort of plugin download stats.

-md