[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Dave Cohen]

What is the general feeling towards opensourcecms.com and 
phpbbhacks.com.  My guess is that both sites are maintained by a person 
or handful of people who have taken the task on themselves to keep up 
the maintenance.  Both sites are very handy when it comes down to trying 
to find things in a central location.  Given that, I feel that people 
who are developing the plugins should not have to notify, in this case, 
Craig that there is a new version of a plugin, it should be up to him 
and any who try to help him keep an up to date list and updated download 
of the latest version of each plugin he chooses to maintain. 

Currently the only way for public users to find plugins is through the 
support forum, which is not the easiest way to find something you are 
looking for.  To me the best thing about the sites above is the ability 
to see a demo of the products they host.  For wp-plugins.org to be 
successful, demos will be a must.  Demos on individual sites are nice, 
but occasionally I have found that you do not always get to see a demo 
of each plugin with ease, wp-plugins.org could give users that ability 
all in one place, but the functionality would have to come from Craig's 
development team.

Just my .02, I know we've been around the block on this a bit, but I 
really think this could be something that is great for users and developers.

Dave Cohen
AIM: DaveatMVN <aim:GoIm?screenname=daveatmvn>
Web Admin
Most Valuable Network <http://www.mostvaluablenetwork.com>

Alex King wrote:

> You may want to read through the archives on this subject, a lot of 
> people don't care for that approach.
>
> --Alex
>
> http://www.alexking.org/
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Danny Dawson wrote:
>
>> Situation: Domain Name expires and is not re-registered.  Emails bounce.
>>
>> Good to have a copy reside locally on the wp-plugins web server.  Also
>> good to keep the support data (i.e. forums, etc.) available on the
>> wp-plugins web server also.
>>
>> If for nothing else, think data redundancy.
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:01:35 -0600, Alex King <alex at alexking.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This can be solved fairly easily. Set up a CRON job to run every night
>>> that checks each download. If a download can't be found, it hides that
>>> plugin (and sends and e-mail notification to the author) until the
>>> download link is fixed.
>>>
>>> --Alex
>>>
>>> http://www.alexking.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 16, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Danny Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem with this approach: lots of dead links.  People change
>>>> their own websites much more frequently than the wp-plugins website
>>>> should be expected to change, and it can make it nearly impossible to
>>>> keep track of where to find a plugin
>>>
>>>
>
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