@unknownuser said:
i'm sort of under the impression (judging by a couple of random posts by SUteam members) that they don't want to go full on in supporting plugins..
i'm pretty sure if they set up a depot app store type of thing then they'd have a gigantic slew of new problems to deal with.. fredoscale was a decent example of what may happen so imagine if that was happening to millions instead of thousands.
it'd be sort of sweet if google had an approval process of some sorts prior to rubies going live but again, that's a big undertaking in itself + we'd miss (some of) the benefit of talking directly with the developers and offering ideas/additions etc. (that could still occur but the process would be weeks/months instead of hours/days.)
Jeff,
I would not go that far to put the ruby plugin dev under their wings. I think the way it works now is ok.
There are a lot of good plugin ideas being put in a trash can caused by the lack of some basic classes.
The handling of problems with (and responsibility for) the plugin must be handled by the plugin author, not by Google SU.