[wp-hackers] Development Process

[Craig]

Doug said:

> Those authors just releasing into the wild most likely won't be bothered
> to sign their plugin up at the official site and keep it updated
> whenever a new version is released.

Agreed, but there are authors who ARE on the official site and don't
keep the plugin up to date.

> I'm also envisioning a "digg"-esque sort of front end, where actual
> users could mod plugins up or down  and once a plugin was lowered past a
> certain threshold, an email would be fired off to the plugin author
> saying "15 people anti-dugg your plugin's entry for being out-of-date.
> Time to update your meta info on pluginrepo.wordpress.org!"  Let network
> effects take care of lazy, shiftless layabouts.

Interesting!

Craig.