Hi all (especially Shazron, Simon and anyone else working day-to-day on the Plugins repo),
There seems to be a trend at the moment with the plugins repo for users to get angry and jump on the entitlement train when the plugin they wanna use isn't maintained and updated quickly enough, even though that would have to be a full time job to maintain that many plugins authored by other people. We have taken a step in the right direction encouraging people to keep new plugins they submit in their own repos and only have a link to them in the README on the main repo… but…. I am proposing that we get proactive about the authors looking after their own plugins. I am proposing that we go through the plugins and where we *can* discern who the author *is*, try and contact them and ask them to host the plugin in their own repo as we have started to do (and therefore have their own issue tracking for their own code). Where we cannot, we should decide if it is a plugin one of us is willing to maintain. If so, great, we move it to one of our repos. If not… Put a note right in the top of the README that the plugin might not be up to date, etc. Caveat Emptor and all that. What say you? - tommy
