Integrate rating aside popularity

[AntoineTurmel]

It would be cool for user to be able to rate plugin. It could be done either by modification of pluginrepo or installing rater plugin

[selfthinker]

Generally a good idea. In order to prevent misuse only logged-in users should be able to rate. And they should only be able to give 1 rating, but re-rating (and removing the former rating) should also be allowed.

But I am against using any additional plugins, as the pluginrepo plugin should work on its own and we shouldn't use any third-party plugins on dokuwiki.org unless it's from a trusted source and/or its code has been checked. (I'm not saying you cannot trust the rater plugin, I'm just saying we don't know that yet.)

[AntoineTurmel]

Agree, which type of vote should we keep ? I like the 5 ⭐

[splitbrain]

I'm not convinced that rating is a good idea. I'd assume a majority of our users would not be able to differentiate a bad plugin from a good one. All they can see is if it work or not. And that feedback is already collected by popularity.

[selfthinker]

I used to agree with @splitbrain, but now I don't. It's because there simply is no fair way of evaluating the value of a plugin. The number of installations (aka "popularity") is not entirely fair either (i.e. it will also not be able to tell you which plugins are good or bad). Yes, a rating system will not be entirely fair as well. But at least the combination of those two makes it more realistic.

Additionally to that, I would like to have "recommended" flags, which are only editable by the core team. Not sure how that can work, though? The way the plugin works right now, I don't think something like that would be easy to implement.

Maybe we should just try out a rating system and see how it works out? We can still remove it again if they turn out to be too similar to the popularity data.

[splitbrain]

Yeah maybe. I'm not convinced but I'm fine with trying it out. However I think #25 is way more important than all the other changes (though I guess @GeekShadow's priorities may differ here).

[AntoineTurmel]

@selfthinker
+1 for recommended flag, maybe it can be saved in the configuration just like "bundled" plugins ?

@splitbrain
Table view redesign would be good too, I have to give a shot when I got time ;)
Again, I'm filling issues for things that would be nice for the pluginrepo