Add abilty to rate and report compatibility of plugins from wp-admin

[jb510]

For the millions of downloads some plugins get there are way to few ratings on them. I think the ability to rate and report the compatibility of plugs from the backend dashboard page would dramatically increase participation in rating.

This could be accomplished most easily placing a link to the "details" of a plug-in (like the one that appears while searching for a plug-in) after it is installed on plugins.php.

This could be accomplished even more effectively by showing direct link next to each listing on the plugins.php page link stars/compatibility and link text reading "rate now or "report compatibility now"...

For reference I point you to the excellent new to FireFox 4 (beta) add-on compatibility reporting features.

Could have sworn we already had a ticket like this, but can't find it, so I guess it never made it from chat/blog to Trac. Yes, reporting on compatibility in the admin would be better, since most people don't bother to go back to the repo on .org to do so. Require a comment that describes the issue if reporting incompatibility.

If this link were added automatically for any plugins that are installed from WP-Extend, it would also serve as a subtle indication of which plugins are NOT managed/version checked by that system.

Just pointing out a small positive side-effect of this idea.

Related: #18821, #19520

Draft mockup of Rating and Compatibility Column on plugin screen

Is there any reference doc / API for interacting with .org? This is really way beyond my skills but I'd still be willing to try to get something started...

FWIW,
A rating URL looks like this:
​http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/{plugin-slug}/?rate={1-5}&topic_id={#####}&_wpnonce={##########}

Compatibility URL:
​http:// wordpress.org/extend/plugins/{plugin-slug}/?compatibility[version]={wp_version}1&compatibility[topic_version]={plugin_version}&compatibility[compatible]={0 doesn't or 1 works}

Things to think about:

• In order to rate a plugin, one needs to be logged in to .org. Do we save those login credentials as part of their user profile or require them to login at the time of rating/reporting? Does that authorization get saved somewhere permanently or in a transient? (this is the stuff I have no idea on how to handle)

• When an update is available we should probably display the report compatibility of the update.

• I've never liked having the "Average Star" rating appear next to and separately from "your rating" on .org so I've proposed combining them or not showing average rating. I don't know that we need to show average rating to someone that has already installed the plugin.
• If ratings and capability is show in it's own column we probably need a screen options settings to show/hide the ratings column like the description can be, sites built for professional clients will probably often want to hide this.

I've attached a first draft mockup.

#21896 was marked as a duplicate.