[Geany-devel] Third party plugin publish and third party library bundle problem

[Hong Xu]

On 07/15/2012 03:40 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:27:46 +0800
> Hong Xu <dev at hong.me> wrote:
>
>> And, BTW, why geany-plugins project doesn't use a submodule for each
>> plugin? Not all people need to clone the whole repository, and as it
>> is separated to submodules, the permission control can be better for
>> developers.
>
> IIRc this was under discussion in past but was dismissed due to adding
> complexity and little overall understanding of this. However, I don't
> think cloning the repository is this much traffic. Also a goal was to
> have plugins and its patches being reviewed before entering master to
> enforce a minimum on quality. This also includes some
> fire-and-forget-plugins of some developers as you can see from
> MAINTAINERS files there are a lot of plugins out of maintenance.
>

Thanks. However, I have to make a pull request for any trivial changes 
in this way. Do you think this is unnecessary?

In you mind, is there any advantages for geany plugins in this repo 
other than other places?

Thank you,
Hong