I don't have much to contribute at this point, but I did not want the topic to go unnoticed.
This is a very valid request, but I think it will be extremely hard to do. Pablo On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Alexandru-Emil Lupu<gang.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > As programmers create bigger & better idiot proof programs, so the universe > creates bigger & better idiots! > I am on twitter: > http://twitter.com/alecslupu > I am on linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alecslupu > Tel: (+4)0748.543.798 > > > > > -- Pablo Godel ServerGrove Networks http://servergrove.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
