[Pyblosxom-devel] my status for the next few days

[will g. <wi...@bl...>]

Just as an FYI, I'm also going to fade off the face of the earth until
like Monday or so.  I'm going to post a blurb to the PyBlosxom site in
regards to the CVS snapshot I have in my directory (I'll build a new one
for today) for people to use if they're interested in helping to test and
such.

In regards to the plugin registry, I'm not sure how to handle this quite
yet.  I'm working on an administrative interface for it, but it's not
going to be ready any time soon.  There are a bunch of things that need to
be fixed:

  1. All the plugins that come in the contrib section of the
     PyBlosxom installation should be marked as such so that
     people know they already have the plugin and just have to
     move it from one directory to another.
  2. The URLs for plugins in contrib definitely shouldn't point
     to what's in CVS.  I would vote we either take all the
     contrib stuff and dump it in a directory on the web-site
     or we just mention that it comes with PyBlosxom.  I think
     the latter is the better idea.
  3. I don't think we've had any new plugin submissions in
     a long while, but people are definitely building plugins.
     So I'm not sure why they're not submitting them to the
     registry.  That needs to get fixed.
  4. We need to develop a list of standards plugins must meet
     to be added to the registry.  Things like "they have
     to have instructions for installation at the top of the
     file, have to have license information, have to have
     __verions__, __author__, and ... listed...".  I'll
     probably take a first stab at this.  It'll likely
     include the verify_installation() stuff I just did as
     well.  Then we need to make sure we've done this
     for all the plugins in contrib.


Um...  I think that's all I can think of.  The first two I can't do unless
I get access to the registry data or I finish the administration interface
for the registry and Wari installs it.

The third probably involves a "so...  why aren't you submitting plugins to
the registry?" email to the pyblosxom-devel and pyblosxom-users list (and
it's possible people will respond with "because the regsitry sucks!"  or
"because the registry is broken!" in which case I should address those
problems).

The fourth I'll take and try to get done over the next couple of days.

Anyhow, that's everything I can think of.

Rock on!
/will

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