500 Plugin Requests

Jim

I was just cleaning up the Plugins and Dev Forums, and amazingly found nearly 500 plugin requests...

david_h

that's quite a list. . .

I'll get right on it.

mitcorb

A quick scan suggested that some requests were indirectly fulfilled. That is, reading the requests suggested such tools as Free Rotate by TIG, for instance, and a couple of others.

EDIT: And, thank you, Jim this will be interesting reading.

Dan Rathbun

Might help if the list were brought into a spreadsheet, and categorized, such as "Construction Lines/Points", "Importers", "Exporters", etc.

Chris Fullmer

Wow, this is cool. I didn't see this when you posted it Jim. Very cool.

Chris

pbacot

Thanks! Now, list ones that are all or partially provided already.

Chris Fullmer

Do you mean an update to that list showing which of those have since been created? Or did you just want a complete list of all plugins hosted on SCF? The complete liste exists:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=250026

Chris

pbacot

@chris fullmer said:

Do you mean an update to that list showing which of those have since been created? Or did you just want a complete list of all plugins hosted on SCF? The complete liste exists:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=250026

Chris

I was only kidding. Assembling 500 posts is perhaps enough! Yeah, I meant of these, I wonder how many are actually taken care of. I guess that's a job for me then

I read one where TIG was about to post a solution but the link wasn't there.

pilou

Cool a second chance for some ones!

TIG

@pbacot said:

...I read one where TIG was about to post a solution but the link wasn't there.

Perhaps there was already a solution, or I posted a full blown solution in another thread
although I would usually post a link to that...
The only one I can recall was ages ago - EarthMover's 'tiling' request, which was superseded by events, when several example scripts/ideas came 'from others'...
I'd be interested to learn which specific 'request' this was... senility must be setting in

pbacot

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19600

it's a lot like this one: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20065

No really I just use "by rails" so much I forgot this simple one at the top is exactly it

So while there are many requests -- many, if not most, have been answered.

TIG

@pbacot said:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19600

it's a lot like this one: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20065

No really I just use "by rails" so much I forgot this simple one at the top is exactly it

So while there are many requests -- many, if not most, have been answered.
So what you are saying is that there have been many requests, but only a percentage of these have never been answered. If I get embroiled in a request I do try and end with a resolution, or "It's not possible...".
So who is to produce the list of [REQ] posts that have been answered / unanswered ?
And why ?? I don't really see a purpose - otherwise why not do the same for requests for help with say the Move tool, or Arc ?

Dan Rathbun

@tig said:

So who is to produce the list of [REQ] posts that have been answered / unanswered ?

(1) Can moderators set a topic to "Solved" against a certain post, with the new "solution feature" (green check button) ??

(2) There IS a search feature to find "Unsolved Posts."

Is there one to find "Solved Posts" ??

(3) Can Jim's scraping script be modified to filter "Unsolved" from "Solved" ?

Dan Rathbun

@dan rathbun said:

@tig said:

So who is to produce the list of [REQ] posts that have been answered / unanswered ?

(1) Can moderators set a topic to "Solved" against a certain post, with the new "solution feature" (green check button) ??

The answer to (1) I'd say is YES.

Here's an image of one of my posts.
I personally changed the title prefix from "[Issue]" to "[Closed]", but it was Gábor that actually marked it solved. (He reminded me of the "solution feature" in doing so.)