Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] [pyblosxom-users] 3rd party plugin repo

[Dieter P. <di...@pl...>]

why not just allow both?
depending on the preference of the original plugin creator, he should be able to choose
whether his pull request includes the plugin directory itself, or a submodule definition.

personally i think submodules are the better option, you can ask people to include a lot of info
in their files and/or README's, but it will never be as complete as a submodule using the original
git repository itself.
but i would just allow both... as long as you end up with a subdirectory containing the plugin and maybe some documentation

On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:30:21 +0100
Florian Bäuerle <flo...@gm...> wrote:

> I just did a pull-request (breadcrumb-plugin) - first time i've been
> using git and/or github. I hope I did not mess up anything.
> 
> Anyway, great idea, keep it up!
> 
> Regards, 
> Flo
> Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2012, 11:28 +0200 schrieb Akai Kistune:
> > Wari -
> > 
> > Thats why I ask people put contact information with the plugin. While 
> > there really is nothing I can do about stagnation, I feel this is a good 
> > solution for all the people running non-git setups or people who 
> > frequently break their build.
> > 
> > Also, there is the URL field in the plugin docstring which should be the 
> > git/svn/server where one can find the 3rd party plugins repos or 
> > download which should also help counter the issue.
> > 
> > 
> > Asheesh -
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/04/2012 05:20 AM, Wari Wahab wrote:
> > > Git submodules are really pointers to commits of a particular repos.
> > > Therefore a release of a plugin would mean a specific commit at the
> > > original site. Publishing it together with the plugins.git (instead of
> > > submodules) would mean that all historical logs regarding to a
> > > particular version is lost.
> > >
> > > Anyway, there are pros and cons of both approaches, but I have a feeling
> > > that putting it all in to the plugins.git would lead to the contrib
> > > situation where plugins get stale after a while. At least with
> > > pointers/submodules, one can look up the original maintainer, and
> > > provide updates if needed instead of updating plugins.git, and you then
> > > have to go back to the original maintainer to update their copy.
> > >
> > > Anyway, it's all up to you what you think best, I still think the
> > > submodule idea is great, but I guess there are others out there using
> > > CVS or Subversion, in which case, submodules don't work for them.
> > >
> > > On 04/12/2012 10:36, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Akai Kistune wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Because its not just other git repos, its all over the place. Also -
> > >>> While I'm not sure how the git submodule process would work, in any
> > >>> case, publishing to the repo should be akin to a "release" of your
> > >>> plugin, while the versions in people's personal repos would be the
> > >>> development versions.
> > >>> I hope that it will always be possible to pull a working version of a
> > >>> 3rd party plugin from the repo.
> > >
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