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TagMePluginAppraisal: Page for your opinions about TagMePlugin. For development discussions and Support see TagMePluginDev.

Feedback	Quality (1 poor ... 5 excellent)						Install
By	Idea	Design	Impl.	Docs	Exam ples	Clean liness	Qty.	Chgd Plugin	Chgd TWiki	Comment
MartinCleaver	5	5	3	3	3	3		no	no	I have to say this is the best plugin I've seen on TWiki.org in the last 3 years. Bloody fantastic.
MeredithLesly	4	4	1	3	3	3	0	no	no	Because the way that TagMePlugin is implemented does not allow topics to be renamed, I had to remove it from my Dakar installations. I also prefer to avoid plugins that do not conform to PluginsApiPolicies, but the inability to rename topics without losing their tags is the real killer. I regret this, as it would have given some very useful functionality to my current project that I may not have time to implement myself. See TagMePluginDev for more on this subject. {1}
DaliborSvoboda	5	4	3	4	3	4	1	no	no
FredMorris	5	4	4	4	4	2	3	yes	yes	I don't think the concept is "one of a kind", but it's cutting edge in terms of social interactivity. I first tried to install it on an older TWiki installation, and it didn't seem to "take" for unknown reasons. Then I tried to get it working for some people who had installed it on the debian-under-windows distro, and couldn't. So I created a new Dakar (4.0.4) install and it worked fine there. I modified the code to implement a `status="no"` parameter so that I could get it to fit sanely into the PatternSkin toolbar (with some associated template and CSS changes). I'll move over to TagMePluginDev now..
StevenHall	5	3	3	2	2	3		no	no
JasonMurdoch	5	5	3	5	5	5	1	no	no	This brings twiki to another level.
LisaJSinclair	5	4	3	4	4	4	1	no	no	Works fine on Firefox, but gives no results on IE7. Will raise a bug for this.

Statistics	Quality (1 poor ... 5 excellent)						Install
Number of Feedbacks	Idea	Design	Implem.	Docs	Examples	Cleanliness	Quantity	Changed Plugin	Changed TWiki
7	4.9	4.1	2.9	3.6	3.4	3.4	6	1	1

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IdeaQuality: Never mind the implementation, how good is the basic idea?
DesignQuality: How well designed is the extension from a user perspective?
DocumentationQuality: How good is the documentation?
ExampleUsefulness: How good are the examples? Did they help you understand the extension?
InstallationCleanliness: Was the installation easy? Was there an installer script? Was it easy to resolve dependencies?
ImplementationQuality: If you are not a programmer, you will probably want to set this as 'Not rated'. Programmers, please review the code before marking this!
How many TWiki installations have you installed this on?
Did you have to change the extensions code (e.g. to get it working)?
Did you have to change TWiki's code for this extension?
Comment

(Kenneth's appraisal is moved to Dev topic)

{1} Repl to original comment, "Writing into the pub hierarchy is not approved API": Not exactly true. The official doc (TWiki03.TWikiPlugins#RecommendedStorageOfPluginData and TWiki04.TWikiPlugins#RecommendedStorageOfPluginData) recommends to store topic-specific data such as generated images in the topics attachment area. Please follow up in TagMePluginDev.

-- PeterThoeny - 25 May 2006