Having missed most of the discussion, I wanted to at least throw in
some existing resources on the topic.

For one, the Plugin Authoring guide covers a few of the requirements
that Matt listed: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring

On the topic of extending plugins, I covered one approach to that in
my The Onion talk:
http://www.slideshare.net/joern.zaefferer/the-onion-147705
On building robust plugins in general:
http://www.slideshare.net/joern.zaefferer/building-robust-jquery-plugins-presentation
(click the notes tab below the slides to get the notes for each slide)

I still think that making plugins extensible isn't something you can
throw a generic solution at. Finding extension points, exposing and
documenting them is a unique process for every problem.
My favorite example for such an extension point are custom methods for
the validation plugin. There is a documented API
(http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Validator/addMethod) to add
methods, which makes the plugin very extensible in one direction.

Jörn

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