Redmine

I agree, that the plugin registry can/should be improved. Also I like the idea of popularity tracking.

Yeah, and while we're at it: It wouldbe nice if the user chose their redmine version and all plugins that are not reported to run under that version would be hidden...
Please post a feature request :-)

I too agree that the current plugin directory can be improved. Some ideas for such are already proposed (see eg. #10670 and #11222).

However, I don't think plugin popularity tracking is possible within the current Redmine plugins environment. Redmine.org/plugins is only a listing directory, not a hosting site/directory like wordpress.org/plugins is. This will make it nearly impossible to keep track of plugin popularity by download (for as far as the number of plugin downloads - thus not SCM-checkouts - is representative for its popularity?).

Another approach could be like the one utilized by the DokuWiki community. DokuWiki comes with a bundled popularity plugin (https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:popularity) which is used to gather statistics of the environments where DokuWiki is deployed, íncluding the installed plugins. This information is used to display plugin popularity on DokuWiki's plugins listing (https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins).

Kind regards,

Mischa.

Jan Niggemann (redmine.org team member) wrote:

Yeah, and while we're at it: It wouldbe nice if the user chose their redmine version and all plugins that are not reported to run under that version would be hidden...
Please post a feature request :-)

Please don't! ;) This is already possible: goto redmine.org/plugins -> click "Browse all Plugins..." -> in the top-right corner select the Redmine version from the "Show only plugins for Redmine version:" dropdown.

Mischa The Evil wrote:

This is already possible: goto redmine.org/plugins -> click "Browse all Plugins..." -> in the top-right corner select the Redmine version from the "Show only plugins for Redmine version:" dropdown.

OMG, I never realized that! Thank you for pointing it out!