Updated Plugins Guide - questions and RFT

[Ian Clatworthy]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:19 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> 2. Have a file called plugins.cfg which looks something like ...
>>
>> [plugin foo]
>> purpose = "Do cool stuff"
>> category = productivity
>> platform.linux = True
>> platform.windows = True
>> platform.mac = True
>> branch = lp:bzr-foo
>> home = ...
>> owners = ...
>>
>> Does that sound more maintainable/scalable than editing the current
>> Wiki
>> page? 
> 
> I urge you to federate this data directly into the plugins in the first
> place: we've written approximately all the code to do this already.

There are at least two issues with that I know of:

1. We still need a list of plugin branch URLs *somewhere* so we can
   fetch them to get the rest of the data.

2. We have around 100 plugins and I don't have write access to most
   of them.

We can certainly head in that direction though.

Ian C.