I started a topic a while back on the idea of bringing everything under one roof, and we came to the idea that trying to build on Alcor's original ( blacktree.com) site would be best. We've since been in touch, and he's said he'll give us login details to be able to upload new things, but as many of you are aware - Alcor's pretty busy and is just as mysterious as QS itself ;)
We've also had the idea of integrating sparkle, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. Documentation is definitely a good idea. It needs to be done - especially for the plugins. As usual there are complications - the plugins are a mess (some don't build etc), and the source for some is not that of the latest version / incomplete so we can't just update the text and rebuild. We actually have to make the plugins again! It's probably the biggest problem we have with QS - documentation and working together / gathering everything in one place, but hey - we're all trying to make it better: ) P.S. I've added a link on the blacktree-alchemy github downloads linking to the blacktree-elements downloads page - good idea Rob. 2010/1/14 Rob McBroom <[email protected]> > On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:07 PM, fc wrote: > > > I'm happy to see that several people are seem to be updating and > > developing new plugins. After trawling around the various forks i've > > found that versioning and usage instructions within the QS plugin gui > > are useless at times because the date of the plugin release is usually > > not updated and usage instructions in the plugins info pane are often > > missing. The new and wonderful remote host module is the exception in > > this regard. > > Thanks! Glad you like it. (It was updated yesterday, FYI.) Although, I’ve > never done anything with the date, so that must be automatic. If you mean > that the interface in QS isn’t telling you about new plug-ins, that’s > because it’s pointing to a URL wholly unrelated to where plug-in development > is currently happening. People are aware of that, but there’s no fix coming > any time soon as far as I know. You just have to go out and look for new > plug-ins right now. > > I’ve added a note to the plug-in reference I’m working on to encourage > documentation. > > Coincidentally, I was going to post a message today asking if one of the > owners of this group could add something to the FAQ, like “How do I get the > latest stuff?”. > > Unless you’ve been following here for months, you really wouldn’t know that > ß57 is available from GitHub (or that it even exists). And if I hadn’t just > happened to look at the “downloads” section of a fork of blacktree-elements, > I would have no idea that certain plug-ins had been fixed or updated. And > maybe there are places out there other than GitHub worth mentioning? > > Is this process of staying up to date pretty manual and horrible at the > moment? Sure, but it doesn’t need to be horrible *and* obscure. :) > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > Don't try to tell me a thing is important to you if the whole of your > “support” entails forcing others to spend time and money on it. > >
