chore(backlog): add six awesome-nu plugin candidates

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8h ago
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Refreshes the plugin backlog from the awesome-nu audit (2026-10-31). The audit previously showed 6 untracked plugins from awesome-nu's Plugins section; all 6 are now recorded, and the audit runs clean (33 in registry, 2 in manifest, 43 in backlog, 0 untracked).

New entries:

  • wangjiawen2013/charton (nu_plugin_charton): ELIGIBLE. 448 stars. Plugin crate 0.9.0 pins nu-plugin =0.116; the v0.9.0 GitHub release has no assets, so intake is a CI build from source. Apache-2.0.
  • kazu/seekzstdsep (nu_plugin_zstdsep): SOURCE_ONLY. Tag v0.9.0 with no release object; crate pins nu-plugin 0.116. MIT.
  • gtnebel/nu_plugin_nuplot: ELIGIBLE with a caveat recorded in its note. It is implemented in Go (ainvaltin/nu-plugin library), so it does not fit the Cargo CI-build path; intake would ship the upstream release assets (v0.2.8 has 8) or need a Go build lane, and protocol compatibility needs a live check against current Nu. BSD-2-Clause.
  • nushell core crates nu_plugin_gstat, nu_plugin_inc, nu_plugin_query: recorded as BUILTIN, following the existing nu_plugin_formats precedent, so the audit stops flagging them.

Data-only change; entries were verified against the upstream repos (crate pins, tags, release assets, licenses) before listing.

Summary by cubic

Adds six plugin candidates from the awesome-nu audit (2026-10-31) so the backlog stops flagging them as untracked, and promotes nu_plugin_charton 0.9.0 to the CI build farm.

  • Records nu_plugin_zstdsep as a new SOURCE_ONLY candidate; it pins nu-plugin 0.116 and needs a CI build from source since its tag has no release assets.
  • Records nu_plugin_nuplot with a caveat: it is a Go plugin, so it does not fit the Cargo CI-build path and protocol compatibility needs a live check.
  • Records nu_plugin_gstat, nu_plugin_inc, and nu_plugin_query as BUILTIN since they ship with Nu, following the existing nu_plugin_formats precedent.

New Features

  • Promotes nu_plugin_charton 0.9.0 to the active manifest (now 34 plugins); its release has no assets, so it will be CI-built from source.
  • Builds workspace-member plugins: the manifest accepts an optional cargo_package field that the build workflow passes as cargo build --package, covered by validation and tests.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added six plugin entries to the backlog, including their release and version details.
    • The entries note compatibility and intake considerations and identify each plugin’s current status.