Each block is more or a less a separate (sub) project. So there definitly needs to be a community around it before it should end up in our CVS. We failed at this point in the past. Take a look at some blocks we have, there are quiet a lot that don't have a community. So we should start considering this point with new contributions and I think Bertrands proposal is simple but good enough.
Hm.... I do see the problem that we get more and more unstable blocks that might not have a community around them but...
...I guess that happens mainly because of two things
1) We more or less quietly dropped the scratchpad concept. Everyone prefers to create a block because it's more "pluggable".
Maybe we should emphasize the scratchpad's existence a bit more again? ...or maybe have a block-scratchpad area instead of marking them unstable? ...maybe even on cocoondev.org as suggested? ...or maybe leave it like it is.
2) The still lacking "real blocks" (tm).
I guess with the current "blocks" it way harder to gather a community around them when they are hosted somewhere else. ...just because you cannot try them out so easily then.
So basically the easiest/best solution might be...
Leave everthing like it is. Ask yourself twice if the block really makes a valuable addition. Ask the community if the donation of the block is being supported. Help to get real pluggable blocks working in 2.2 :)
My 2 cents -- Torsten
