It would be really cool to be able to select a set of plugins and download a zip or something with all those plugins included so that people with offline instances don't have to worry about downloading lots of different plugins and installing them separately.
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:21 PM Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 06.09.2016, at 01:47, Slide <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ok, that works. How will plugin maintainers manage what is shown when a > plugin is selected? > > The data is collected from the update center, which in turn uses a > combination of POM and wiki (maintainer, plugin name, release date, …), the > infra-statistics (installation counts), and plugin wiki page > (documentation). The idea is that all of these sources are periodically > updated -- not sure how well that's currently implemented though. > > We may implement something like Git repo based plugin docs in the future, > but that would be opt-in. > > > Also, the "Download" option seems a little odd since most people would > use the plugin manager in a Jenkins install to do plugin installs, or is > that changing? > > Nothing's changing in Jenkins. I think we'll make the 'download' a popup > explaining about the plugin manager in Jenkins, and still allow manual > download for people with offline instances -- basically deemphasizing the > "here's a file for you" part of the "Download" button. > > Also, in the thread on the dev list I suggested we could do something like > a "Tweet this" button -- "Download in Jenkins" -- which would only require > you to configure a Jenkins URL in HTML 5 local storage, or a cookie, to > make it work from JS. This would require a change in Jenkins though. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/D4463375-B301-4BCD-A2DE-A103A8087B5A%40beckweb.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfRZf_PSgwCkZbDTSM1KoMwfxGZndABga%2B_8EGP2gdUPA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
