利用者:Ideasman42/ProposalAddonsContrib

Currently we try to encourage developer to become involved by having them develop their scripts in contrib, but its a hassle to test for user and developers alike.

While we have these docs available:

• users need to setup another svn, remember to update it.
• even if someone sets these up for themselves - testing builds wont include them.
• result - contrib scripts are not well tested, devs work on their tools with little feedback. its fine as a sandpit for new devs but does not help them get involved with users and get feedback.

proposed solution

add another extern

so we have this in: https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender

release/scripts/addons/
release/scripts/addons_contrib/

(addons contrib would be an extern referencing) https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/contrib/py/scripts/addons

disable for releases

scons / cmake buildsystems are aware of a 'release' build, we can use this setting so release builds wont copy 'addons_contrib', this means there is still incentive for developers to have their work reviewed to be moved into addons/ and ensures we don't have lower quality scripts in release.

If users complain some addon is available in testing builds but not in the release, this is a good indication the script should be reviewed for moving to addons/

testing as a support level

currently we have 2 support levels in the addons interface "Official" and "Community", a third level can be added called "Testing", this also gets its own icon. it should be very clear that users are enabling testing addons.