In reply to Matt.

Hi Matt,

First I think a flushing of the repository would be good. There are a number of plugins that haven't been updated in over 7 years. It would stand to reason, those plugins aren't going to be updated and they are likely to be incompatible with current versions of WordPress, I don't care what argument is made for keeping them.

Maybe a section of the repository for plugins that haven't been updated in case someone wants to fork them and update them.

With so many plugins, it would take months to manage to find some plugins due to lack of filters in the repository search.

Here might be one idea for a start.
Cleaner Plugin Installer

Employing something similar in the dashboard of WordPress plus on WordPress.org would be helpful.

There is the need for more intuitive search. Something like Ajax Search Lite would be helpful if it were in the plugin repository. I have purchased the full version of that plugin for some sites and it helpful. I think something like it would be helpful for the repository.

There are a lot of new and exciting things being done to help developers with WordPress, but not a lot of focus is placed on the user experience when dealing with the plugin repository.

Making the plugin repository more accessible in the search would make the experience much better. Being able to filter out old plugins would be a big plus as well.

Some of my ideas.