[wp-hackers] Plugin Management and Autoupdate System

[Jamie Holly]

Are you planning on some sort of timeout function for reading these feeds?
SMF uses something similar in their forum software and the problem is when
you go to the admin front page, where the check is performed, sometimes
there site is down and you end up waiting 2 or 3 minutes for that page to
load. Considering there are people who don't renew domains/hosting packages
or just give up all together, it would be nice to timeout the connection
some how, or flag plugins that have feeds that are no longer there.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
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[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Computer Guru
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:25 AM
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Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Plugin Management and Autoupdate System

> I've started an Auto-Update-Plugin half a year ago too but decided to
> stop it when I saw that there was already another one. My idea was
> similar to the concept from Computer Guru, but I extended the RSS feed
> with some special tags:

I love the tags. (OT: I love your Sitemap generator too - I always forget I
have it, it's completely maintenance and trouble-free!)

I'm trying to make the feed as efficient as possible, so I just have a
channel author instead of an author for each version - there shouldn't be a
need to repeat that tag for every item.

It's prolly a good idea to include min/max WordPress versions, but _please_
let's not have the maxversion defined by default - look at Firefox: for
every new version all plugins need a rewrite. Maxversion should *only* be
used when it has been 100% verified that the plugin is broken in a higher
version - innocent until proven guilty.
 

Computer Guru
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Arne Brachhold
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:32 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Plugin Management and Autoupdate System
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <rss xmlns:wpu="http://wordpress.org/dev/wpu/1.0/" version="2.0">
>    <channel>
>       <title>Google Sitemap Generator</title>
>       <link>http://bla.com/GoogleSitemapGenerator/</link>
>       <description>This generator will create a Google compliant
> sitemap of your WordPress blog.</description>
>       <language>en-us</language>
>       <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
>       <lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:01 GMT</lastBuildDate>
> 
>       <wpu:pluginLink>http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sm-
> home/</wpu:pluginLink>
>       <wpu:pluginName>GoogleSitemapGenerator</wpu:pluginName>
> 
>       <wpu:authorName>Arne Brachhold</wpu:authorName>
>       <wpu:authorLink>http://www.arnebrachhold.de/</wpu:authorLink>
> 
>       <item>
>          <title>Version 1.5</title>
>          <link>bla.com/GoogleSitemapGenerator/1.5/</link>
>          <description>Works with 2.0, but not 1.5</description>
>          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:39:21 GMT</pubDate>
>          <guid>http://bla.com/GoogleSitemapGenerator/1.5/</guid>
> 
> 		 <wpu:minWordPressVersion>2.0.2</wpu:minWordPressVersion>
> 		 <wpu:maxWordPressVersion>2.5</wpu:maxWordPressVersion>
> 
> 		 <wpu:minPhpVersion>4.3.3</wpu:minPhpVersion>
> 		 <wpu:maxPhpVersion>4.4.5</wpu:maxPhpVersion>
> 
> <wpu:downloadLink>http://www.arnebrachhold.de/get/sitemap/sitemap-
> 1.5.zip</wpu:downloadLink>
> 
> 		 <wpu:devStatus>beta</wpu:devStatus>
>       </item>
>       <item>
>          <title>Version 1.0</title>
>          <link>http://bla.com/GoogleSitemapGenerator/1.0/</link>
>          <description>Initial release.</description>
>          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2003 09:39:21 GMT</pubDate>
>          <guid>http://bla.com/GoogleSitemapGenerator/1.0/</guid>
> 
> 		 <wpu:minWordPressVersion>1.5</wpu:minWordPressVersion>
> 		 <wpu:maxWordPressVersion>1.5.2.2</wpu:maxWordPressVersion>
> 
> 		 <wpu:minPhpVersion>4.3.3</wpu:minPhpVersion>
> 		 <wpu:maxPhpVersion>4.4.5RC2</wpu:maxPhpVersion>
> 
> <wpu:downloadLink>http://www.arnebrachhold.de/get/sitemap/sitemap.1-
> 0.zip</wpu:downloadLink>
> 
> 		 <wpu:devStatus>stable</wpu:devStatus>
>       </item>
>    </channel>
> </rss>

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