[wp-hackers] Remove Plugin from wordpress.org?

[Leif Andersen]

Perhaps what could be done, if the people who designed the plugin
architecture were so paranoid about loosing a line of code, could create an
archive system.  So the plugin isn't in the main plugin repos, but the code
would still be available on an archive website.

~Leif
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 14:00, logikal16 <logikal16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this has been discussed before, but is worth reiterating.
>
> Plugin authors should be able to remove their own plugins from the
> repository.
>
> The statement of "letting old plugins rot to preserve the open source
> model" is absurd. If authors want to hand their plugins off to someone
> else (or write an abandoned message), that's fine. If they want to
> remove the plugin from the repository, then nothing should prevent
> that from happening too.
>
> The open source model doesn't say anything about forcing code to exist
> in the repository forever. If someone finds the plugin's code and
> chooses to create an open-source forked version, then there's nothing
> stopping that from happening.
>
> The issue is there are many obsolete, redundant, sandbox (e.g. "Plugin
> Name"), and broken plugins clogging up the repo. They're still in the
> repo because the authors weren't able to remove them. Regardless of
> how optimistic you'd like to be, the fact is that many of these
> plugins will never find a new home -- or see another update.
>
> Please, do us all a favor and allow plugin authors to remove their own
> plugins.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Feb 7, 5:39 pm, Jeremy Visser <jer... at visser.name> wrote:
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> > On 08/02/10 03:57, mich... at mfields.org wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to have one of my plugins removed from the directory and
> > > can't figure out how to do it.
> >
> > > I've tried email, but received no response. Any suggestions?
> >
> > About a year or so ago, I had my plugin removed, and Matt responded by
> > e-mail from the plugin contact address, so that should have worked.
> >
> > I guess to make it easier to verify that your request is legitimate, you
> > should blank your SVN repository (with perhaps a commit message saying
> > why), and then point to that in a subsequent e-mail.
> >
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