[wp-hackers] WP Plugin site.

Henning Seljenes henning.seljenes at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 08:24:29 UTC 2004


I forgot to add, I think it would be nice if visitors could subscribe
to a category (a plugin) and be notified whenever an update is adding
in that category for the plugin.

-- Henning

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:21:56 -0500, Henning Seljenes
<henning.seljenes at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the author agrees to release his code, it must be released under
> the GPL. As people have stated, since it is under the GPL, the plugin
> site could host the plugin regardless of what the developer decided.
> But I think that goes against the WP spirit, and is not something I'd
> like to see happen.
> 
> I also put together a simple script to check if a remote file exists
> [1] (to see if the developer site is working). The next step is a
> create a cron job php file to go through the remote links and check
> whether the site is up/down and update the database/.htaccess
> accordingly to enable/disable access to the local mirror copy.
> 
> I'm having trouble to get the file_upload hook to do anything (is this
> active in 1.2-stable?), but once I figure out what's going on, I'll
> try to create a plugin to add support for when a developer uploads
> their file to the local mirror to either a) allow access to the mirror
> full-time, or b) only allow access when the remote site goes down.
> 
> [1] http://www.grumm3t.com/scripts/check_remote_file/check_remote_file.phps
> 
> -- Henning
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:40:50 -0400, Stephen O'Connor
> <steve at stevarino.com> wrote:
> > Henning Seljenes wrote:
> >
> > >I like the idea of implementing a system to browse plugins via a feed,
> > >but I don't know the likeliness of something like that making it into
> > >the official distribution. And while a local mirror would be really
> > >helpful for that kind of situation, I think it's been decided that it
> > >should be at the users discretion whether or not a local version of
> > >the plugin exists.
> > >
> > >-- Henning
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Oh, of course. I completely agree that no action should be taken with a
> > plugin without the author's knowledge and agreement. We just need to
> > figure out a standard way to determine a) licensing of plugins and b) a
> > plugin's granted rights. Most sites of this nature handle these issues
> > with just a TOS agreement, but I don't know how that will fly in the WP
> > croud.
> >
> >
> >
> > - Stephen
> >
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