To enable this:

Provide a way for IDEA power-users to provide a list of their favorite plugins. That way, we could look in the list and see what combination of plugins that others actually found useful for a particular type of development.

Include at least the following info:

For each power-user:

• Users job title
• Users name (and/or link to confluence profile)
• Users company/url (optional)
• Users development focus (WebApps, EJB, Web Services, POJO, Swing GUI, Business logic, Persistence Layer, etc.)
• Year user started doing software development
• Year user started using IDEA
• List of plugins as described below.

For each plugin:

• Plugin Name
• Version
• URL
• Open or closed source
• License url
• Cost
• Level of need (from "Can't live without it" to "Nice toy to have").
• Best features
• Worst problems
• Wish list
• Level of support by plugin author(s).
• Comparable products/plugins

It would also be useful if the generation of the list of plugins for a power-user could be automated from their idea configuration so that they only have to manually enter the personal and subjective information. That way you are more likely to get people to do it.

Also, someone at JetBrains should either approve the inclusion of a power-user's entry or at a minimum should periodically review the entries to ensure that they are legitimate and professional.

If this was maintained in Confluence http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Home it would be more controlled than in the forums or on the twiki and it would be something that the IntelliJ marketing people and others could easily refer to.