On Sat, 6 Apr 2019, 01:53 Tushar Joshi, <tusharvjo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This means maintaining the list of plugins as files in a github
> repository.  This repository will be considered as the plugin registry.  So
> the plugin developers will just have to submit a PR to get their plugins
> included or updated.  We can still create the moderation process to verify
> and validate the plugins before we approve the PR for addition or update of
> the plugins.
>

+1 from me. I've suggested this a few times in conversations on web
infrastructure in the past. Seems the ideal way to do this IMO, but...

>
> The plugins can be uploaded to the maven registry just as mentioned in the
> email thread and only the metadata, and registration, SHA hashes can be
> placed in the plugin registry github repository.
>

IIRC when I looked into it the IDE doesn't check the plugin file against a
hash currently? That would need to be done for this approach.

Best wishes,

Neil

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