[wp-docs] Suggestion : Plugins/ Hacks archive

[Carthik A Sharma]

Matt,
It is awesome that the page be author-updatable, but the wiki is 
author-updatable too, and the problem seems to be that plugin authors 
are reluctant to do the editing/adding themselves, so it might be useful 
to have at least a couple of people in charge of keeping particular 
sections updated, and there could be a mail address, like 
plugins at wordpress.org where authors of new plugins could send a mail 
with a zip file, or the plugin, and the person in charge could do the 
updating. It will be easy enough to advertise the fact that all plugin 
authors have to mail the address to notify wordpress-at-large of their 
new plugin by mailing at this address.

Just like you, and the other devs, are in charge of seeing that the 
wordpress source is up to date and all the fixes/changes submitted by 
everyone, including the devs and other end users are committed to the 
cvs, there should be someone with the responsibility to see that 
particular sections are always up to date and maintained properly. In 
other words, if a plugin author does not want to deal with learning to 
use a new system (the wiki/wordpress-proposed-cms) and with updating a 
page there, then the utility of that particular central resource must 
not suffer.

One reason I expect the new TemplateTags page on the new wiki to be 
useful is because it is, so far, consistent in style, which is an 
after-effect most of it having been created by one person.

This is just my feedback, feel free to think about this and send in 
comments :)

Carthik.

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> This is absolutely planned and some work has already been done on this 
> front. You can see where it currently stands (not nearly done) on 
> http://wordpress.org/extend/ . I would like to have be plugin-author 
> updatable. I originally planned to use WP for this but it will be much 
> easier with the CMS I'm moving wordpress.org to.
> 
> Carthik A Sharma wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I was thinking it might be useful to have a plugin/hack archive, with 
>> the source for all the pluging/hacks in one place, preferably on some 
>> official wordpress site, or even off it, as a central resource to get 
>> the plugins, (excuse the example, but what I have in mind is something 
>> like http://mt-plugins.org :) ). Today for the third time, I got a 404 
>> while looking for a hack zip file, and I also saw scriptygoddess.com 
>> had a new paginate-everything plugin that was not linked off of any wp 
>> site.
>> I beleive this would make it easier to search for the right 
>> plugin/hack, and get it.
>> I don't know the legal issues involved, as to whether the authors 
>> might have copyright over the pluging and all that, but I would love 
>> to have all of you think about this as a possibility.
>>
>> The wiki is good, but I still can't act as a repository for zip files, 
>> if you know what I mean :)
>>
>> Carthik.
>>
>>
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