Re: Activating more plugins by default in next 1.9 release

On 05/11/2010 13:48, Evan Hisey wrote:
> Either way , it looks like some much better documenting of existing
> plugins needs to be done. 5 of the six you listed are plugins I have
> never seen in Freevo and really have not idea what they do. I suspect
> that may be true for many other users. I know there are a lot of
> useful plugins but they either have very poor descriptions and or poor
> directions on how to setup.
>
> Evan
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I don't think anyone would disagree with you there and in an ideal world 
the authors would have written a wiki page as a condition of the plugin 
being accepted but that's not likely to happen. This is one area though 
where those of us lacking in programming skills can help out in a big 
way. It doesn't take in depth knowledge of python to work out what a 
plugin does and update the wiki with that information.

In fact it would be a nice easy exercise for someone to learn how to 
patch by updating the documentation within  the plugin itself. This is 
important when running freevo -- -i tv.genre for example which should 
provide a description of the plugin and the configuration requirements.

I'll take this opportunity to say if anyone can help with this now is 
the time. If a few people could do 3 or 4 plugins each quite a lot could 
be achieved. A wiki page with your name beside the plugin you're going 
to do would prevent duplicate work being done.

Any takers?

John

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