I think this is a valuable plugin. However, it assumes that the build description has the string "[version]" in it to extract the version information. We simply have our description be the version (and, if a build uses the pattern suggested on the Description Setter plugin docs, http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Description+Setter+Plugin , it won't have "[version]" either).

I'd rather not have "[version]" in my build description, and I think this plugin would be improved by either simply uses the build description for the column value or (maybe as an advanced option), allow one to set a regex which is used to extract the value from the description.