2008/6/21 Noah Kantrowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I propose we move high (or even medium) quality, popular plugins >> onto t.e.o. Perhaps into the sandbox or a new "plugins" path >> initially. Then ship them with Trac, configured but disabled. If the >> plugins stagnate, we remove them, or we pick up maintenance. We change >> our model to rely on plugin authors to maintain quality plugins within >> Trac, rather than treating them as second-class citizens of the >> community. > > -1. You are trying to solve a PR problem with a technical solution. There
No not really. It's about 1/3 technical, 1/3 PR and 1/3 community. The technical aspect it that I envisaged the plugins not requiring any trac-admin upgrade, or real configuration. They have a basic working out-of-the-box config and all they would need is to be enabled in webadmin. The PR aspect is that users get more functionality out of the box. This is a good thing. The (developer) community aspect is that Trac core hopefully gets more developers involved in working on the core rather than just sticking to plugins. > will always be that one plugin that someone wants, that we don't include. > Unless you propose to basically merge t.e.o and trac-hacks (possibly not a > bad idea eventually, but not a discussion for today), this won't do much > IMO. You know and I know what plugins on trac-hacks are up to snuff, and we > are quite clear about it in many places (see how many guides recommend > installing AccountManager). I would propose an alternate solution, the > creation of a "new" project that is officially recognized by t.e.o in some > way as being the turnkey solution so many people want. Perhaps something > like bitnami+oforge+some common options and config settings. "Trac" remains > the minimalist system we all know and love, and anyone installing it will > continue to get the same experience. People wanting the turnkey version can > get $NEWPROJECT, and not care about what particular components it pulls in. I think this is a good idea. +1 TBH, I'm not really convinced my proposal is the right solution, I'm more hoping that if everybody throws out some ideas we'll come up with a solution. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" 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/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
