You should post this to the development mailing list: http://jquery.com/mailman/listinfo/dev_jquery.com
We've been discussing plugin-related issues over there. Along with drafting up the new plugin requirements and spec. --John On 2/18/07, Mattias Hising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been thinking about the plugin development process for jquery. > As it is today we have a wide variety of plugins and some of them are > officially supported. The problem as I see it today are the following: > > - Version management, some plugins that are official do not change in > the same speed as the jquery core, leaving end-users to either not > upgrade the core or make their own changes to offical plugins. This is > not optimal. I believe that in order to become an official plugin, the > author(s) of the plugin has to verify what plugin versions works with > what core versions. If this is not possible, we must create a way to > identify how to work with plugins and version without forcing the > end-user to manually hack the core of jquery or the plugins. Maybe we > should look at PEAR or other libraries and see how they handle version > management for plugins. > > - Offical plugins becomes official by word-of-mouth today, that is the > only way as it is now. Maybe offical plugins also should be able to > become official by adding requirement specifications for future > plugins to the jquery plugin library and letting development-teams > take on these requirements. > > - Coding conventions. I believe that in order to make a plugin > official it has to follow strict coding conventions, otherwise it is > difficult for people to take on development whenever the orginal > author feels he/she do not have the time or focus for keeping the work > up. > > This is just my thoughts and I am sure that John and the rest of the > core team has big ideas in this area, I just hope to create a bigger > discussion about how to work with official plugins and how to handle > requests for plugins, which I think is an important step in order to > jquery to become more stable, user-friendly and the de-facto choice > for javascript-libraries. > > Best regards, > Mattias Hising > Front-End Architect PokerRoom.com > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
