[Bf-committers] Some ideas to improve the "Add-Ons" section

[Doug Hammond]

>
> - Ability to keep addons in sync/update with an online repo could work
> but am wary of this turning into a package manager, we would need to
> have a branch for each release so addon devs could work on extension
> trunk as well as the release branch so users get updates too.
> Since this needs buy-in from existing addon developers I rather leave
> this for a bit since addons are being actively added/written/removed
> and the addon community is still quite new.


I though work in this direction was already under way, I remember discussing
at length
with mindrones about addon metadata, development branches, stable branches,
binary module URLs etc etc...

What happened to all that effort?


Doug.