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["Jay Dickon Glanville" <dickon.glanville@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like it might capture the necessary information.

JDG

PS: take your laptop out onto the back deck?  (depends on your current season)

On 2/7/07, Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jay Dickon Glanville writes:
>
> > Salutations,
> >
> > I'm beginning to get a little worried.
>
> Which I can perfectly understand :-). I'm thinking about this my self for a
> while... I have an idea about a plugin repository outside the Wiki (maybe
> connected to the same auth backend). I'll just scribble away some of my
> ideas how I imagine it:
>
> - database driven
> - located at plugins.dokuwiki.org
> - developers can upload plugin
> - developers can upload updates to existing plugins
> - maybe users can upload corrections as well
> - users can comment
> - user can vote: works for me with Dokuwiki version X, does not work for me
>   with Version X
> - The plugin manager connects to plugins.splitbrain.org to list available
>   plugin, and to check for updates
> - plugins can be tagged to categorize them
> - probably more I just forgot
> - users could easily see the health status of a plugin based onthe user
>   votes (work/don't work)
> - maybe special users could even do security audits, which would give a
>   plugin an extra point or something
> - probably more I just forgot
>
> What do you all think of it?
>
> Should I spend time on writing this system? Or should I use the little spare
> time I have to go outside looking at the sun? ;-)
>
> Andi
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