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Re: orphan plugins
How’s this for a start? Amend/update that page please and let’s get a status update on them all (i.e. which are definitely supported, unsupported, adopted by, superceded by, replaced by, etc). Shouldn’t take long between us to work out which ones are in common use. Then, we can delete the ones that are in active duty and do not replace any other plugin.
What’s left are the orphans. The list can then be used as a place for people to find which plugins are old, which should be used instead, and which ones are available for adoption. If we eventually use it in the wiki docs, fine. If the page ultimately gets deleted, it doesn’t matter because it’s not linked from anywhere except this thread.
EDIT: It might be a good reference for people that find a plugin is no longer supported and want to find out what is similar or can do a similar job?!
Last edited by Bloke (2009-04-23 15:49:16)
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#26 2009-04-23 15:48:58
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Re: orphan plugins
Wow, that’s great! How did you get them all??? And oh boy there are many… did you count them? :)
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Els wrote:
Wow, that’s great! How did you get them all??? And oh boy there are many… did you count them? :)
Screen-scraped from textpattern.org, run thru Excel and then into a text editor with a macro. 598 in total. Yowzers!
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#28 2009-04-23 15:55:33
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You did a wonderful job!
598 in total.
I bet we can find two more that are not on .org to round it off ;)
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Ta. Of course, if it’s going to be a useful document in the wiki, it’ll need formatting a lot better than currently. A fixed width list was the quickest solution so we could get something going now and chip away at the list to find the ones people either a) use/no longer use or b) are true orphans.
Oh, and I added asy_wondertag manually because it’s not in the .org list. But I forgot MLP. Suppose it should be in there :-) That’s 599…
Last edited by Bloke (2009-04-23 15:59:58)
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Re: orphan plugins
Is that a list of EVERY plugin?
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MattD wrote:
Is that a list of EVERY plugin?
As far as I can tell; it’s every plugin that is registered at textpattern.org/archives/?section=plugins
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#32 2009-04-23 16:16:56
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Els wrote:
That’s 600 :)
Out of which many are orphaned and up for adoption. I have marked 278 topics.
I’ll do more work tomorrow but I really think we need another subforum called “plugin archive” or “outdated plugins” as we have topics for plugins from 2004. My view is that those threads should not be buried in the generic Archive
bloke wrote:
I’d vote for closing the old zem_contact thread and providing the forwarding link as you have done.
Els wrote:
Agree.
Done.
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Els wrote:
Thanks :) I wish there was a way to search for plugins by author… But wait, maybe we can search on txp.org!
Edit: yeah, I think that could be useful: http://textpattern.org/?q=mdn_ and then search the forum for the plugin names.
There are some authors with a minimum of two three letter prefixes for their plugins. so a more fullproof way might be to search for Author name only in the Plugins Support forum. In any case – step two tomorrow:)
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#35 2009-04-23 20:53:28
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Re: orphan plugins
asy_jpcache seems missing, I think.
Nice job everyone, thanks for this effort!
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Neko wrote:
asy_jpcache seems missing
Added, thanks for the catch.
Last edited by Bloke (2009-04-23 21:12:52)
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