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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin Manager displaying plugins that don’t workIs there a reason why some posts display the originating IP and some don’t?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin Manager displaying plugins that don’t workI am quite sure that most people can the understand colored diff output displayed in trac. They are much clearer than their written text instructions which say – Look for the line starting ‘so so so’ around ‘here here here’ and replace it with ‘this this this’.
All it requires are tags off a trunk consisting off a fixed standard release. Trac can display them quite nicely. If one of the lead developers can release a sample plugin and display them in trac that should go on a long way in showcasing the benefits.
If every up to date plugin can be treated as a tag in Subversion and displayed in Trac that will go a long way in making them transparent and easier to update when changes are made to the main WordPress files.
The contents of the plugins themselves shouldn’t be that important, just the changes to the base WordPress files.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin Manager displaying plugins that don’t workThis plugin business is going to get out of hand if some standards are not applied to plugin design and submission.
Free, voluntary and hobbyist should not mean questionable implementation and bad design.
At the very least there should be some coding, documentation and compatibility guidelines plugins must meet to be considered ‘official’ or ‘approved’ WordPress plugins. If some plugin designers will not meet them, their plugins can be put in a different category.
I can illustrate my point here clearly. The WordPress Plugins Repository is built around trac and subversion, a fine system for source code and project management but I am yet to see any submission in which the authors use the diff system to display the changes to be made to the stock WordPress files.
Coupled with some design notes and caveats this would simply eliminate the need for most of the installation instructions.
It is nice to see enthusiasts and hobbyists submitting their changes to the community, but without more formality it is only going to frustrate those who want to go beyond the basic installation.