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I agree it's very ad-hoc at the moment and that we have to improve.
Your suggestions seem very sensible to me, but we have to discuss them before I can tell you how we will evolve this.
Please bear with us!
/Manne
Hi,
Good to hear some positive intent in this area, look forward to hearing more on the strategy :-)
The idea of signing plugins could be a positive thing if used as a means of official endorsement by smartbear. For example, following acceptance and signing by smartbear, possiblity a little badge / icon could be shown somewhere e.g. 'Smart Bear Approved Plugin' - this might then be seem as an incentive for developers, like a kind of certification or trophy.
Unlike Holger & Rao, I have not yet invested any hard work / personal time in developing any plugins yet, but have set aside plenty of ideas and hope to start soon - however, I would like to echo the concerns that (again maybe just my views):
a) Having to hack arround any certificate check when developing plugins would be off putting - the development cycle should be made easy and people should maybe not be forced to have any plugins officially approved before they can be used (in the spirit of open source contribution).
b) There would seem little point developing plugins if it went against Smart Bear's longer term intent / strategy, plus the open source sentiment wouldn't be there if O/S plugins were effectively censored or closed off.
At the end of the day SoapUI is a great open source product with a great community of skilled people helping just because they want to contribute / help, so hopefully there will be some good news coming on the future of O/S SoapUI plugins! :-)
Cheers,
Rupert
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