Vim homepage - improvements I'd like to implement. Comment please

Bram was so kind adding me to the list of contributors to the Vim project which
means that I can propose Vim web page changes by sending Bram patches.
If you have any urgent feature requests its the time to start talking about them.

I'd like to implement:

A:a way to change the script type afterwards (because Bram had to do this manually using SQL)

B:a "repository" field. This way you can register a
git/mercurial/whatsoever repository along with your plugin.

C:an opt-in collaboration feature: You can add other users as collaborators to
your scripts which means that they can change the description and upload new
versions as well (This is similar to what can be done on github)

I'm not sure whether a collaborator should be able to add/drop other
collaborators.

There was a request on the mailinglist for transfering
maintainership to someone else. If this should be possible a
collaborator should be able to add drop collaborators?

I think yes because you have to trust collaborators anyway.

D:change the voting system this way:

1) votings should be tight to a specific versions. If a plugin fixed bugs
there is no reason why bad ratings of version 0.0 should still affect the
latest version ( which might be 10.0 )

Because you can delete specific version archives later there may be votings
for versions which can longe be downloaded

I'm not sure which voting to show by default. Maybe the current figures
should be kept but an optional "detailed" few should be added?

2) force users to give a reason if they vote something down. This will be
kind of dialog and it'll help devs to understand user requirements

3) create a new page returning a list of all scripts and achives as JSON format
which can be used by tools like vim-addon-manager or similar.

FUTURE (?)
PHP docs contain a feature: You can add comments below each documentation page.
Someone (Bram) already added link to a per script id wiki page. However I feel
that showing user comments in the same page could be a nice idea (?)
Do you have a strong opinion on this?
We should add a note that comments "are not maintained" by script authors.
We don't want to put an additional burden on them.

Maybe there should a way for users to subscribe to comment changes (?)

This is not a top priority for me so only comment about this if you
feel strong about it and if you think I should change something here.

Provide feedback about these ideas, please

Marc Weber

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