My version of a plugin repository

[tigerw]

I think, if using GitHub is too difficult for you, then writing a good plugin is basically impossibly difficult for you

Is the repository hosting the plugin downloads, or just storing links? If we forced GitHub, we could just store links, even for historical versions.

Any chance of an API that a plugin may use to perform a version check? Such as "Give me the latest version numbers for plugins X, Y and Z". Preferably in some simple-to-parse format (not JSON - we don't have a parser API in MCS yet)

Would version numbers for one plugin at a time be okay?

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Another bug I noticed in Manage Account:

• My profile picture was too large.
  
• The close account button wasn't working.
  

I don't think we should rely on Gravatar this much. I think the profile picture is fine, but the username should be stored localy I think. All it does is pretty much forcing someone to create another account on Gravatar.

Haven't had time to update manage.php yet, not to worry.

I guess, and I myself don't like creating accounts either, but it is quite convenient to offload all the account information to another service. Maybe an option to set display name if not linked to Gravatar, and that would be all the repository handles.