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Re: Do we need a plugin repository?
Wow. Long discussion about a simple subject.
What’s so hard about creating a distinct location where plugins can be uploaded and stored indefinitely? It’s needed as all too often plugins go missing due to whatever reason on the authors part.
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#38 2006-06-20 21:00:22
- Mary
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Re: Do we need a plugin repository?
They almost always go missing when they are hopelessly outdated. Having a copy of an outdated version is just as useless as not having one at all.
I repeat what someone else has said: one more place to upload makes no sense. Quite frankly, I won’t use it if it existed, I’ve got way too much to do already.
I don’t see anyone yet volunteering to help keep the existing plugin list, txp.org, updated. SVN won’t solve the problem. Another site that gets abandoned when the novelty wears off won’t solve it. There is no magic twinkie.
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Re: Do we need a plugin repository?
I actually feel that txp.org is pretty self maintaining and works pretty well. If a plugin no longer works all that needs to happen is for comment stating as such to be added. Community maintenance.
Personally I think Textbook is a better thing to spend time on then a community repo right now, even though I like the idea.
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Re: Do we need a plugin repository?
Mary wrote:
I don’t see anyone yet volunteering to help keep the existing plugin list, txp.org, updated.
That’s what has to happen, no upload mechanism, no matter how sophisticated, can take the place of people maintaining the plugin list.
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Re: Do we need a plugin repository?
Holy-smokies. I have to come out from under the rock more often. Anyway, it’s probably old news to some of you folks now but I threw up a place in TextBook to keep plugins, Plugin Archives.
It was meant to address the obvious problem of this forum being a shoddy place for accessing plugins. I realize something like .org would be a good place too, but I can do something about TextBook, I can’t about .org. In any case, I think the table archives in TextBook offer something .org doesn’t at the moment…an easy to scan page of the different plugins by name and by purpose. All that needs done now is for people to fill the tables up, and it doesn’t rely on the plugin authors having to do it (that’s the beauty), anyone can pick a plugin of their fancy and add it in.
I’ve configured the wiki to allow .txt and .zip file uploads to appeal to both types of plugin packages. Furthermore, the documentation page can be used by the commumity to create custom documentation for the plugin. Judging from this thread, plugin documentation is another BIG issue, and now there’s a free writing tablet for all minds to get busy.
Each table row is a plugin entry, and it bridges the author’s own Web site, the forum, and the TextBook nicely.
If you haven’t given it a look yet, you should at least do that. (And I won’t harp on this anymore.)
Last edited by Destry (2006-07-11 20:12:25)
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