[wp-hackers] Google Summer of Code 2007

[David Chait]

I'll put my vote +1 to a check-updates solution that does NOT depend on 
GPL-only repositories, and -100 otherwise... ;)

-d

Mark Jaquith wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Peter Westwood wrote:
>
>> Is this plugin browser _only_ going to support plugins hosted on 
>> wp-plugins.org or will there be future functionality/apis to allow 
>> external hosted plugins to be easily listed?
>>
>> If so determining an API and support for these maybe another good SOC 
>> project.
>
> The idea is that SVN *is* the API.  You could probably just use 
> svn:externals to have it hosted elsewhere and synced to 
> wp-plugins.org  Slightly less easy is setting up a script to commit 
> your external changes to wp-plugins.org
>
> Note that your plugin would have to be licensed under the GPL, as that 
> is a requirement of having your code live (even as a copy) at 
> wp-plugins.org