Hi Stuart, [...] > I guess the problem is how to ensure backend plugins are prominently visible
Probably need to mention them on the home page, install page, start of the user guide, all pointing to where they are at the end of the user guide. > and are not seen as second class citizens. As well as raising user awareness > in the documentation they also have to be painless to install and uninstall > -- maybe the backend option should accept a URL as well as a file name e.g. > > asciidoc --backend install > https://github.com/downloads/srackham/asciidoc-fossil-backend/fossil.zip That would help. For what its worth my experience from another project that gathered a number of plugins is that: 1. a few are distributed with the project and automatically installed with the base package, this got into the major distros 2. eventually a combined plugins project was created with a bunch of the popular plugins all in the same VCS repository but still with their individual maintainers and with a shared website and all installed in one package, this also got into the major distros 3. there are a few plugins that remain defiantly independent but are pointed to from the plugin project website The big thing was distro acceptance, base project ok, fine and so those plugins were always available (though the user has to enable them) but individual plugins were never accepted by the distros, it took the combined package to get them accepted. Packages in the distro repositories provides a better user experience since they install with their normal installer/uninstaller and have to install at most two packages. In this model the main project is responsible for the combined plugins package and the maintainers of individual plugins send pull requests from their own github forks. As the main project has always got the blame for malcontent plugins it is now starting to be more assertive regarding plugin quality. Cheers Lex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
