plugin registry/maintainer

Hi all

Will has lately been asking for someone who maintains the pyblosxom plugins.

I have an idea on how to manage this automatically:

- hack the plugin registry to allow file uploads.
- when a user registers/uploads a plugin he gets a unique key (password)
by mail.
- using email and key he can update his plugin later on.
- allow download of a single plugin and a tarball containing all of them.
- when a plugin is registered/updated generate an email to
pyblosxom-users informing about the new version and the changes made.


Pros:
- one single place to go for plugins
- registered plugins are allwais available. no 404's when trying to
download a plugin cause someone forgot to update a url.
- everybody can maintain his own plugins. no extra work for the dev's.
- users get informed about changes/updates.

Cons:
- someone has to write the code for this.

What do you think?

cheers
Steven



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