[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

[William Davis]

>
> Just wanted to add that there's no reason the plugins would have to be
> done at the same time as WordPress itself. I'm sure that'll be a huge
> undertaking.
>
> Even just offering an official git mirror of the main repository would
> be a good place to start, so that people don't have to maintain their
> own. Then eventually the git mirror can become the official  
> repository,
> or create a new one, whichever.
>
> We couldn't find a git mirror that was up-to-date _and_ had tags so we
> had to make our own: https://github.com/dxw/wordpress


I'm sure this won't be popular, but what if plugin authors had to  
resubmit their plugins? It would probably help weed out a ton of old  
plugins that are no longer relevant.