[Xerte-dev] Re: Modularisation

[Pat (Pgogy)]

Drop in the folder via FTP and run code or
Upload via admin (which runs code)

I guess issue there is the access rights to the template - but public by 
default is easy

Open Web installs not ideal, a lot of WP plugins live outside the WP 
list - same as for drupal. The plugins have to meet conditions and 
license terms to be hosted on the main site, which limits to an extent 
what people develop.

However, as we've not got a central repository for plugins, github seems 
a useful intermediary place. It would be neater to have QA'd modules - 
but as you've said before, if you put your hand in the fire, you get 
burned. The alternative to no QA is QA which is a human process (bar 
code sniffers) and so has that overhead.

Alternative is we could work on the basis all plugins which are 
submitted for approval and are "good" get included in core zip? Which 
leads to too many plugins as a problem, but a nice one to have.

I think both have benefits and are not mutually exclusive.

On 2015-02-09 08:08, Julian Tenney wrote:
> [from old thread]
> 
> My own thoughts on Modularisation: originally I just wanted to be able
> to drop a folder with a template in it into an install and it just
> works. I'm uncertain about things being added to installs from the
> open web for QA reasons. However, I am just me.
> 
> We should progress this work through some sort of discussion -
> proposal - development route (as with all pieces of work I suppose),
> with the lazy voting applying to the proposal, so that everyone has a
> chance to see and understand what is being put forward, and to ensure
> a consensus around the solution before we start building anything.
> That is good practice for all pieces of work, and reflects the project
> growing up, rather than anything wrong in the past.