Hey there!
I would like to ask some stupid questions...

There is any chances to clean up the mess that is in the "symfony plugins"
section?

By mess i mean:
- there are 2 twitter plugins (i suppose that they do the same thing, in 2
different ways)
- at least 3 chart plugins
- 23 plugins that handles forms ( validation, improvement, security or User
interface )
- 3 pdf plugins
- 3 feed plugins (2 that creates feeds )
- 3 image manipulation plugins
- 8 plugins that handles mail
- 5 jquery plugins
- 7 CMS applications
- 3 blog plugins

Ofcourse, there are many, but i just took some examples.
If we could structure the plugins better:

1 blog plugin that is able to have many more features
1 image manipulation plugin with a maybe more complex Yml that would handle
all the stuff,
1 Pdf plugin that can easy interfaced with HTML, Latex or other things
1 Jquery plugin that would have all jquery / JqUI files and functionality
1 chart plugin
1 twitter plugin
1 CMS application

I do not want to be missunderstand, but i think too many people reinventing
the weel or the warm water. Instead of having 10 unmaintained plugins for
the same thing, we could have just one that would be maintained by all 10
developers, instead of spending the time by rewriting the same thing in
other way. In the end, i think we all would have something to gain. Some of
us a nice portofolio (being involved in sf project), others would spend less
time improving x plugin and testing y,z plugins as well (even debug them).

I think this collaborations between developers would diminish the chances of
bug occurences, would create some mature software, and improve the quality
of the plugins.

P.S. I do not want to offend developers for their work. Is just i think it
would be better to have less plugings with more features.
I think that sf personell could provide us a list with most maintained
plugins. Then, we will see that from those 283 plugins, (maybe) more than a
half are not maintained, and still have some items left to be done in TODO
list.

Ex:
DbFinderPlugin - 6 todo items
sfWebBrowserPlugin - 0 todo Items
sfLucenePlugin - 0 todo items / no Propel implementation
sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin - 0 todo / no doctrine implementation
required
*sfJqueryReloadedPlugin* - 8 items todo
sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin - 0 todo
sfAdminDashPlugin - 3 todo items
sfImageTransformPlugin - 0 todo
sfGoogleAnalyticsPlugin - 0 todo
sfAssetsLibraryPlugin - 6 items todo
sfLightboxPlugin - 0 todo
sfTCPDFPlugin - 0 todo
sfEasyGMapPlugin - 4 items todo
sfTaskExtraPlugin - NO README PRESENT
sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin - 0 todo
sfPropelActAsCommentableBehaviorPlugin - (2 items on wish list )
sfPropelSqlDiffPlugin - 0 todo items
nahoMailPlugin - 1 todo
sfDateTime2Plugin - 0 todo
sfDoctrineActAsTaggablePlugin - 0 todo
sfPropelParanoidBehaviorPlugin - 0 todo
sfPropelVersionableBehaviorPlugin - 0 todo
sfDoctrineApplyPlugin - 0 todo
stOfcPlugin - 0 todo
sfSympalPlugin - 0 todo (?) no Propel implementation
sfGuardPlugin - 2 todo
sfFormExtraPlugin - 0 todo
sfDoctrineGuardPlugin - 0 todo
sfThumbnailPlugin - 0 todo
sfFeed2Plugin - 2 todo items

Of course some of the plugins allready reach a maturity level, but, many of
them are just in a premature state (check next pages :) ) .

Alecs

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