[RFE] Often Installed together with...

[rsandell]

Problem with this page

https://plugins.jenkins.io/gitlab-branch-source/

Expected behavior

A nice to have feature would be on a plugin to see what other plugins it is often installed together with, like you can see on many webshops "this item frequently bought together with" kind of thing.

I came to this feature request when I was looking over all the GitLab plugins trying to understand what other plugins would be nice to have.

Some smart filtering is probably needed like hard dependencies etc... It would be quite obvious that a pipeline steps plugin is installed together with workflow-job and would only pollute the list.

All the data should be available already in the statistics.

Actual behavior

N/A

Possible solution

No response

[halkeye]

All the data should be available already in the statistics.

I'm actually not sure we (plugin-site) have access to that raw data. Nothing in https://stats.jenkins.io/ hints at it to me. You'd want to compare the data per installation id I think.

[zbynek]

I'm also skeptical about mining this data from installs, even if enough raw data was there. It would be hard to distinguish plugins that are working well together and plugins that are actually duplicates of each other but people install both by accident.

It might be nice to allow maintainers to somehow express that two plugins work well together via metadata, maybe let labels link to some sort of topic pages like GitHub has, then all plugins labeled with gitlab would link to a single page explaining how they play together.

[halkeye]

then all plugins labeled with gitlab would link to a single page explaining how they play together.

thats how all the labels on confluence way back when were sorta working. You could get a list of plugins that implemented a specific hook, or feature, or whatever. People could make arbitrary ones too. I really liked just looking around.