walterbyrd
I think it's great that people take the time to develop all these dokuwiki plugins. But frankly, without adequate documentation, many of these plugins are more trouble than they are worth.
Often a reasonable amount of instruction would only take a few minutes, or less. But, very often, plugin developers just throw code out there, and assume that everybody will automatically know what files need to be created and/or modified, where those files are located, what permissions need to set, what versions of dokuwiki that plugins will work with, and so on.
I assume most plugin developers have strong skills with PHP, and are very knowledgeable with dokuwiki. But, I would ask those developers to please try to stand in the shoes of other dokuwiki users, who may be less knowledgeable.
ryan-chappelle
No adequate documentation? Care to explain what feature or plugin is not adequately explained?
I think the people behind DW takes a lot of time and effort into documentation, after all we have the source code notes and browse, it may be a bit technical, but it's orders of magnitude better than nothing; we have DokuWiki's wiki, too, and it even offers help in different languages. Collaboration is always welcome as well... If it is a plugin which is not explained, you should contact the plugin author, I guess.
In particular, all those things you have mentioned (file permissions, locations and version compatibility) is actually given either into each plugin's page or into wiki:plugins and its related links, which even presents a warning on how to install plugins and the risks implied.