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Re: orphan plugins
I think that I went through them all according to these parameters:
- All plugins with an author whose last post here was a year ago were marked as [orphan].
- All plugins which I could not find an available download link I marked as [archived] and closed the topic if the last post in the thread was older than one year.
- All plugins whose functionality can now be achieved with native tags I marked as [archived] and closed the topic
I’m sure that you might find mistakes, and/or typos in there. Let me know if you don’t have enough forum privileges to correct them
Conclusion:
- I found that it was interesting how some authors although not currently active in this forum kept their txp sites and their plugins on line. Some are there since 2005.
- Some plugins showed no activity in their threads for over a year but – speaking from own experience this is sometimes the case when the plugin just seamlessly works as per its description.
- There are a number of orphan plugins which would be greatly missed by a lot of members from this community if they are not adopted. Namely, plugins by osei, rob sable, benbruce, zem’s to mention just a few.
Textpattern.org is a great site but I am wondering if it would be a good idea if it could also act as a repository for the actual plugins. I found that in a large number of threads people are just asking for an alternative way to get the plugin as the download links are dead.
Yiannis
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Re: orphan plugins
maniqui wrote: Don’t forget to mark Postmaster (or any other plugin by Ben Bruce) as orphaned!
FYI: There’s a ransom on right now (almost filled) to get this plugin back and with many improvements check it out here
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