On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At Wikimania, we had a good conversation and a
proposal (that was
basically agreed upon by everyone in the room IIRC!) about creating a
"gold standard" for extensions, judging them based on their code
quality, compatibility with MediaWiki versions, tests, etc.
I was in that room and I agree that defining and implementing this "gold
standard" is a good idea. For what I recall, factors considered included
objective facts like compatibility tested with Jenkins, support for LTS,
etc. Still, I don't see this as a substitution of user feedack, with its
potential drawbacks but also with the uniqueness that such human feedback
provides.
Whenever we have this type of discussion, Wordpress is mentioned as a good
example of a catalog of plugins with information useful for Wordpress users
(meaning Wordpress admins, just like in the case of MediaWiki). Look for
instance
http://wordpress.org/plugins/feedweb/
Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.9.2
Last Updated: 2014-8-21
Downloads: 90,268
((((This first block is quite objective))))
Ratings
4 stars 4.8 out of 5 stars
5 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=5>
24
4 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=4>
1
3 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=3>
0
2 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=2>
0
1 stars <http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feedweb?filter=1>
1
((((The ratings we are talking about, they show also the amount of votes,
it does draw a picture about this plugin.))))
Author
Feedweb Research <http://profiles.wordpress.org/feedweb/>
1 plugin
((((You can see how prolific this developer is, and check data & feedback
on their other plugins, if you wish))))
Support
3 of 3 support threads in the last two months have been resolved.
((((We could apply something similar with Bugzilla/Phabricator, and perhaps
even Flow one day))))
Got something to say? Need help?
View support forum <http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedweb>
Compatibility
WordPress
+Plugin
=
Works!
4 people say it works.
0 people say it's broken.
((((This little module is especially useful, as it attempts to tell you
about specific combinations of Wordpress and plugin versions, according to
other users -- imagine if Jenkins could vote there as well))))
IMO, that would be way more useful to me than
arbitrary user ratings.
Why not having both?
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil