[Bf-committers] Addon guidelines (suggested update)

[Campbell Barton]

Hi while looking over some of the newer add-on submissions,
its getting difficult to evaluate for inclusion.

There are a few reasons for this ...

- They're often small and do one thing (single menu item).
- Some are just ways to save some manual steps - calling a few operators.
- Some depend on a users own specialized work-flow.
- Others are just very specific, seem more like developer experiments.

Its great users are writing tools to improve their own productivity,
but a lot of these IMHO aren't significant enough to be included in
Blender (not even in contrib).

It makes review/rejection difficult because each time we basically say
"this add-on isn't very useful",
... where they're scratching their own itch (so to speak) and
obviously have a use for it.


Here's a proposal for text to accompany the add-on submission page on
developer.blender.org.

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While there is a lot of room to extend Blender in different ways,
please note that obscure functionality, minor changes or
tweaks for your own specific work-flow may be rejected for inclusion in Blender.

While there is great value in developing your own tools,
some additions don't make sense to include in the blender.org official releases.

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Feedback welcome.

- Campbell