[wp-hackers] Plugin Repository

[Brian Dupuis]

I was thinking the same thing, actually. How many users are going to 
know to go to the trunk to acquire the plugin? I know I've received 
several referral hits from people clicking on the link back to my site 
from the header of one of my incomplete branches... I have no clue 
whether their trying to install and run it but it has the capacity to be 
a support nightmare.

I think users may be confused what the difference is between this and 
the WordPress Plugin Manager stuff. Admittedly, I don't currently see 
the user benefit to the repository right now. For developers, yes.

Owen Winkler wrote:

> Is there an easy way to make downloadable builds from the repository?  
> Even though the repository is pretty cool for developers, regular 
> users really can't be expected to download each file individually.  
> I'll happily test alpha.
>
> I have certain files set to download daily from a repo into a temp 
> directory on my server, zip them, and then deploy the zip to a 
> predefined download location.  It would be useful to add this type of 
> functionality to Trac.  Something that would let you mark SVN 
> directories/files for archival and deployment would be super cool, 
> especially if you could opt to insert SVN revision information and 
> Wiki output into a file in the archive.  I'm just making a small 
> wishlist for the promised friendlier front-end, which certainly needs 
> back-end TLC.
>
> Owen