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2 years ago
I'd like to outline what our plans are for the site, short term and longer term. All summer long we have been battling spam on the plugin repository. It had gotten worse over time to the point it overwhelmed the infrastructure team. The team locked the site down two weeks ago to evaluate the situation and to figure out a solution to this problem.
Last year we announced that we would be launching a new plugin site by the end of the year. Needless to say the team was not going to launch a site that wasn't ready for launch. We've decided to totally start from scratch on the plugin site and start over, unfortunately priorities in the project have shifted with jQuery Mobile the last few months as well as other projects that have not been announced.
Please also consider that with the exception of John who works on jQuery core and Scott who works on jQuery UI the rest of the team is 100% volunteer. We maintain servers and manage developers expectations on our personal time. We have day jobs and families and we also have to fill in our love for jQuery in that full schedule.
With that said the plugin repository problems are a result of being lower priority and no time to work on it. We've discussed as a team what has happened over the last two weeks and what we plan on doing to get this site fixed now and in the future. It is also a fault of the Developer Relations team (that's me) in that we haven't communicated the status of this site sooner.
For now, the infrastructure team has locked down the site to stop the addition of spam on the site. We've started cleaning the spam from the site and have upgraded the underlying site engine to it's latest version. The upgrade is what has taken the time that it has. The plan is to ideally have the updated site upgraded by the end of the week. At that time the site will be unlocked to logins again.
Longer term the site is going to be completely rewritten and we are hoping to have something launched in the next couple of months. The idea for the new site will be to make the plugin site more of a plugin index that link off to your plugin site. More information on that will come out as we get closer to launch. Look for that by the end of the year.
Please be patient as we work to resolve the problems with the site we are facing. We are working to ensure that the site is working and usable going forward.
I'll keep this thread updated with the latest information as I receive it.
Thanks,
Ralph Whitbeck
Developer Relations
