The gist of it is:

• design and codify how plugins will get installed, removed and configured
• implement required infrastructure code
• design and codify how plugins will hook into mediagoblin core
• write documentation for plugin authors

The wiki page tracking this is at: ​http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/PluginSystemDesignDocument

This ticket does not cover creating actual hooks in mediagoblin. Either each hook should get tracked separately or we should create a new bug for a bunch of things or something like that.

Set show_ticket_details to true in the config to enable showing ticket updates in the timeline.

​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracIni#timeline-section

This is important, because this is how I often review recent patches that have been added!

It should be easy to disable a plug-in without uninstalling it.

<paroneayea> plugins are configured currently via sections
<paroneayea> it's something like
<paroneayea> [plugins]
<paroneayea> [[mediagoblin.plugins.flatpages]]
<paroneayea> herp = derp
<paroneayea> I think
<paroneayea> and "configuring" a section turns that plugin on.

An idea on how to disable a plug-in without removing or commenting a whole section out line by line: add a “-” —

[[-mediagoblin.plugins.flatpages]]