Plugin promoting

[amorenew]

I found a very helpful plugin and I wonder why there is no section for popular linter plugins?

The plugin I found is there:
https://github.com/wrike/dart-code-metrics

[bwilkerson]

We should definitely consider promoting contributions from the community like this.

A couple of nits. First, technically plugins are supported by the analysis server, not the linter, so the linter documentation isn't necessarily the best place for such a list. (The linter package provides a subset of the analysis checks provided by the analysis server. The linter package can be thought of as a built-in plugin.) Second, I don't believe that we currently have any way of measuring the popularity of plugins, though it would be interesting to think about how best to do that so that we could use popularity as an indicator of quality.

[amorenew]

@bwilkerson popularity is not a big issue for now as the plugins will be few
The main purpose of plugins is to add common lint rules from other languages like Javascript ESLint
I think plugins will be a maximum of 5 and if it will be more we could use sub-readme

But anyway I couldn't see any other plugin than dart-code-metrics if you know others it would be nice to mention it.

[incendial]

Considering this comment #58533 the problem of analyzer plugins discoverability is real and I personally think that any team can benefit from a code quality tools like Dart Code Metrics plugin.

A couple of nits. First, technically plugins are supported by the analysis server, not the linter, so the linter documentation isn't necessarily the best place for such a list.

If it's appropriate to mention our plugin somewhere in the docs, could you help find the right place for it? The only example I have is Flutter state management solutions page https://flutter.dev/docs/development/data-and-backend/state-mgmt/options and it really helps people find a state manager.