Re: [Gramps-devel] proposal: move every good "addon" into the main gramps 4.0

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...> wrote:
> I am not commenting on any particular addon, but the whole
> addon system, the structure of such things.
>
> If you are the author of some addon and you don't want it
> moved into gramps 4.0 then it's simple: don't propose it.

That seems fair, and probably how it has always been.

> If some addon doesn't come up to the standards that we expect
> gramps code to have then it won't be voted in, if it is proposed.
>
> If it's a proof-of-concept then it shouldn't be automatically
> migrating from release to release.  Either it was a success,
> in which case it should be put in gramps proper, or else it wasn't,
> in which case it should be left to atrophy, ignored.

The only thing I would add is that being in Addons does not imply
anything: it doesn't mean it is an inferior bit of code; it doesn't
mean it wasn't successful; it doesn't mean it was only proof of
concept; and being in Addons doesn't mean it will atrophy and be
ignored.

On the contrary, being in Addons means that you can revise it every
day, and you can deploy it to users whenever you want. You, the
developer, are in charge of the release schedule... and everything
else.

And I would also suggest having votes for the other direction: current
plugins that should be moved to Addons. For example, I think NarrWeb
could benefit from having a release schedule independent of Gramps. It
could then be re-released without having a full gramps release.

-Doug

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