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BAILOPAN
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Old 10-20-2009 , 03:13   New Plugin System?
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This was discussed yesterday in the Donor forums and on IRC - we're looking for ways to improve how people submit, download and search for SourceMod plugins.

Right now, the whole process is inlined into the discussion-based vBulletin UI. I don't think that's ideal, or user-friendly, though it makes support easy. EventScripts breaks away from this (http://addons.eventscripts.com/) though they use what appears to be a custom toolchain (I don't have time to write one - and I don't want to reinvent the wheel).

What I envision:
  • People should get a much friendlier search and download user interface.
  • People should be able to download all plugins as zip files.
  • Plugin developers should be able to upload packages that get compiled and (re-)zipped on our webserver.
  • AlliedModders should be able to upgrade and retheme vBulletin quickly, which we can't do since small changes break the plugin system.

One idea is to move off the forum-centric process. There's a system built explicitly for addon-based products called AMO, which powers these sites:

https://addons.mozilla.org/
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/

It might be worth trying this out. What do you think?
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