Perhaps we should also discuss some other workflow/issues, and how it would look with this new plugin store:
– How does a non owner submit changes/improvements to a plugin?
— E.g @gvolt adopted the touch_display via a PR Rewritten touch display plugin by gvolt · Pull Request #338 · volumio/volumio-plugins · GitHub, how would this kind of thing work with the new system? A lot of plugins depend on the community to make improvements/fix things once abandoned by the original author.
– The final “single source of truth” for plugin code – as being discussed over here, and here currently there is no guarantee that code you download from the plugin-store is the same that is checked into the repo. This seems to be something manually checked by the Volumio devs, and again a possible source of oversight/human error. Also, IIRC beta channels are available immediately, making a Volumio dev scrutiny moot, for compromised/malware code.