At 7:10 AM -0800 11/15/07, DHH wrote: > > Now that acts_as_nested_set has been moved to a plugin, there has been >> talk on the Better Nested Set mailing list of merging our work into >> the official rails plugin. Before I put a patch together, I wanted to >> ask if the core team would be receptive to this. Is the official >> acts_as_nested_set plugin simply there for backwards compatibility, or >> does the core team want to see it beefed up and improved? > >I think our position is that we'd prefer to keep the current plugins >as-is, but encourage people to start new derivative plugins that can >see further development, which then doesn't have to be backwards >compatible.
The specific question is: Do you expect continued development by the core team of the acts_as_nested_set plugin? But here are the more general questions about plugins and rails core: I'm a bit confused about which plugins are going to be officially supported by the core team as rails goes forward. I'm not taking any position right now on which should be but if the code is in the rails subversion repository then the only people who can make commits are the core team. Are there a set of plugins which should continue to work for the 1.2.x series but which are deprecated for 2.x? Are there a set of plugins which should continue to work for the 2.x series (extracted from code which was in core in the 1.2.x series) but which will be deprecated for 3.0? Is the core team trying to head in a direction so that there are no plugins in the rails repository for future rails versions -- instead having the plugin hosting ecosystem be distributed outside the core rails repository? Right now there are about 21 plugins in the rails repository (link to trac view below): http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/plugins and another 4 in the legacy directory. In the last three months only seven plugins have seen changesets: exception_notification token_generator acts_as_list in_place_editing acts_as_tree auto_complete acts_as_nested_set There are four that haven't been touched in 2 years: localization deadlock_retry ssl_requirement scriptaculous_slider and another 5 that haven't been touched in the last year. upload_progress javascript_test account_location continuous_builder http_authentication How many of these plugins work with 2.0 and is new functionality planned for any of them? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
