Plugin overlap survey

[kdeldycke]

In the context of the general migration of this mono-repo into a collection of independently packaged plugins, and to speed-up the final archival of this repository, here is a proposal to mark some plugins hosted here as deprecated. My intention here is to bootstrap the discussion on which plugins we can safely mark as abandoned, unmaintained, unused, deprecated or overlapping.

Here is a couple of observations I gathered while updating the plugin inventory and their migration status:

• assets - A pelican-webassets package is already available on PyPi. Both have been merged and moved to: https://github.com/pelican-plugins/webassets
• clean_summary - It only strips <img> tags from summaries, which is a feature representative_image already implements.
• filetime_from_hg might be merged with filetime_from_git. Discussed at [Migration] filetime_from_hg #1315.
• gallery - Looks like it is a subset of photos, which has more advanced features.
• gist_directive - Seems to overlaps pelican-gist, which is maintained and distributed on PyPi.
• googleplus_comments - Is Google+ still around? 😆
• md-metayaml - Adds YAML metadata support for Markdown content, which is also a feature of pelican-frontmark.
• neighbors - Is just a simplify version of multi_neighbors.
• open_graph - Implement a subset of the already migrated seo plugin. See: Add social meta tags? pelican-plugins/seo#5 (comment)
• pandoc_reader - No update since 2014. A new and improved version has now been moved to pelican-plugins umbrella organization. See: Migration of a new and improved pandoc_reader plugin #1303, [Migration] Flag pandoc-reader as migrated #1309 and https://github.com/pelican-plugins/pandoc-reader.
• readtime - Estimated reading time of an article is a feature already proposed by post_stats.
• twitter_bootstrap_rst_directives - Has been superseeded by bootstrap-rst, which has the same feature set and is actively maintained.
• yuicompressor - YUI Compressor seems dead and the Python wrapper project is archived.

[logological]

joachimneu/pelican-md-metayaml appears to be abandoned; there have been no commits since 2017 and it doesn't work with Pelican 4. pR0Ps/pelican-yaml-metadata (which is not a submodule of the current repository) seems to be an actively maintained, drop-in replacement that actually works.

I am having difficulty understanding what noirbizarre/pelican-frontmark actually does because the documentation is nonsensical in places. (I gather the author may not be a fluent speaker of English.) If it does anything in addition to allowing YAML in the front-matter metadata, then I wouldn't consider it a replacement for joachimneu/pelican-md-metayaml. (I generally want my plugins to follow the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well", not mixing and matching various functionalities that I don't necessarily want or need.)