>> In terms of specifics ...you know how GeoServer extends plugins a
degree of trust (that the quality is good enough that you can handle the support emails?). uDig has the same tradeoff but our user community is different.I don't really think we have a formal procedrue. It's about user asking for them I guess, if a plugin stays long enough in the extra ones and does not cause much troubles, I think it gets promoted to the standard distribution. Not sure thought, Chris?
Actually we've booted quite a few in to datastore extras. Basically everything except shapefile and postgis. Those are the only two we agree to official support. If TOPP feels we can handle all support requests that no one else volunteers to do then we'll include it in the standard distribution.
Though Oracle and ArcSDE and DB2 will probably always stay as separate downloads, even if we deem them very good, because all require external jars that we can't provide. So it's useful to have them as a separate download so people specifically follow the instructions there.
Chris
Cheers Andrea !DSPAM:1003,45e47fb3325751804284693!
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