On 29/01/2008, John M Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed. Although there could be 2 distributions. One that would be > bare bones and another that comes with a number of popular plugins > that are maintained with the core.
I think you've hit on the key word here: "maintained". The current system allows us to distribute maintenance of extra features out to plugin authors, which IMO is a good thing. To bring these into core and up to the same level of quality as the rest of Trac, some of the plugins would need not-insignificant work (and I speak as an author of several such plugins). And then there's the additional ongoing maintenance that this would bring. More features, more bugs, more work. All for features that may or may not be used by the majority of users. One option is to have a distribution of Trac maintained by the community that includes a bunch of frequently used plugins like AccountManager, XmlRpc, etc. That way users can choose to download the featureful distribution if they want to go the easy path, or build up their own features manually as they do now. This could be a "blessed" distribution on t.e.o or maintained on trac-hacks, or whatever. Question is, who's going to organise and maintain it? -- Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
