Melody is an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. We believe that a vibrant community is the foundation on which all successful products and services are built today.
We are now at the very beginning of that mission. There is much to do and we want you to join us!
A couple of weeks ago I posted my thoughts on creating a new packaging format for Melody plugins and its advantages:
The biggest advantage to [this new packaging format] is to allow us to use github to automate plugin and theme installation and upgrades because now one could easily do this: (snip)
What I am snipping out of the above quote are some geeky command lines which illustrate how to checkout a project from git. Such command line snippets now seem anachronistic given that the community has taken a major step in implementing this vision through a new plugin which, after a little TLC, will find its way right into Melody.
What is most exciting I think is the path and roadmap this plugin squarely puts us on. From the plugin’s README:
This plugin is part of a larger effort to completely overhaul how plugins are discovered, installed and managed in Movable Type and Melody. The roadmap for this plugin is for it to interface directly with a centralized plugin directory managed by the community. In this capacity, the need to enter a git url at all will be completely obviated. Instead, users will search for the plugin they want from within Melody, and then click “install.” The directory will know the git URL so users don’t have to.
