Re: contributed plugins

will guaraldi wrote:
> Someone else commented on a plugin in the registry that's marked as coming 
> with PyBlosxom.
> 
> I don't really know what to do in regards to contributed plugins.  I 
> really want it to be a separate project and I don't really want to deal 
> with it.  Anyone want to pick up maintainence of contributed plugins?
> 
> I'm thinking the first thing we could do is spin off a mailing list for 
> it.  Something like pyblosxom-contrib or pyblosxom-plugins.  I don't 
> really care which.  Then that group of folks can go off and do their thing 
> with the contributed plugins including (if they want to) restructuring the 
> plugin registry and such.
> 
> Anyone want to pick this up?  If not, then I think what I'm going to do is 
> write a script that builds a contributed plugins pack and just release it 
> every now and then.  And by "every now and then", I really mean "when I 
> get around to it".
> 
> /will
> 

I'll just quote myself here :)

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.


I think this would be a good solution and am willing to code it if
nobody else feels like it. Altough it'll take a few weeks till I find
time as I have a new project starting this week.

A few questions regarding the infrastructure at sourceforge:
- cronjobs?
- shell access? for running scripts and such.
- access to a mailserver for generating notification emails?


Maybe we could post this and any other available ideas to
pyblosxom-users and see what 'the clients' think/want?

cheers
Steven


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