[wp-hackers] WP Plug-in Manager

[Doug Daulton]

Jason goldsmith wrote:

>Well, once the plugin is run ONCE with the auto-reporter it would be
>in the database....so for the ultra-paranoid developer you'd just have
>to turn on the reporter on a test blog with only your plugin installed
>and run one cycle of whatever it reported and there it would be.
>
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>
Don't all devs maintain a test install anyway?  I know I do.  I do not 
want to drop stuff willy nilling into a live site.

>Also, the idea of an auto-reported plugin database is not to utterly
>replace announcing plugins manually, but to make it so that you
>generally won't HAVE to report them to a bunch of different sites
>manually.
>

Yep, this is the key.  Then, there is one central RSS to which we can 
all subscribe to get the scoop on new releases.