I would like to propose the creation of a Sponge permissions management program, along with a complementary plugin. Allow me to explain my vision.
You would open the program, use it to locate your server files, or simply input the plugins you have installed on the server and it would load all the permissions and configs used by your installed plugins from a database of plugin information plugin creators would submit into the program. It would present you with a screen where you must decide to either modify the configurations for the plugins, or the permissions. If you choose to configure your plugins, you will be presented with a neat list of all your plugins, and if you select one a configuration list would appear in the simple form of a series of check-boxes. If you were to choose permissions it would then come to a screen where you can manage your groups and individual players. With the click of a button your selected group you will be brought to a list of all permissions, however not in permission form, but in the form of a command, and you simply drag and drop the command into any group you desire. After you complete your dragging and dropping of commands, it would ask you if you are using its’ own permissions plugin, or another one, for example PEX. If you are select it’s plugin it will automatically update the permissions files. Once complete with your config files and permissions, you can press the apply button to either apply the changes directly to the server, or generate config and permission files for you to manually place into your servers files.
I hope this inspires someone to make this program, unfortunately i am unable to code - i have tried many times but can never succeed. I think this will benefit the entire sponge community and will be a valuable resource to sponge server owners, sponge developers, and sponge plugin developers.