My initial batch of plugins nears completion, and you've announced your plans for a plugin store. At what point in a plugin's life should we close up our post in the "plugins in development" forum and move on? I assume you didn't mean this to be a general support forum for plugins that are (as much as software ever is) "done."

Cheers
-- perry

See the "Tweets and Newsletter Mentions" of the 3rd Party Developer Relations Statement for what we consider "released" plugins. I've also edited the "3rd Party Plugin Distribution, Support & Sales" section to reflect how developers can get their own sub-forum in the new "3rd Party Developers" forum.

And, no - the purpose of the old Plugins in Development forum was to provide a place for developers to discuss development/alpha/beta issues with testers. For "released" plugins, we expect the developer to add their plugin to the File Library (until the store is done). As things have evolved, we don't believe this particular forum has a use as a separate forum, so I'm going to move all the posts in this forum up one level to "Extending Indigo with Plugins and Python" and any developer who gets their own sub-forum can request that we move topics specific to their plugins to the appropriate developer forum.

So, I think this is a better/more clear process:

• Anyone developing a plugin that doesn't have their own forum under 3rd Party Developers can post questions/comments/discussion of things they're developing in the Extending Indigo with Plugins and Python forum
• After a developer gets a sub-forum, all discussions of any plugins for that developer can take place there.

Is there an easier way to find plug-ins and plug-in updates without searching the whole forum.
There is a lot of great plug-ins out there, but to find them all you have to jump around from page to page.

Plugins that are considered "finished" by the developer should be in the File Library. So, searching there is the best way to find them at the moment.

Plugin developers now have their own 3rd Party Developers forum where they can request a sub-forum for themselves or their companies. We encourage any developer who is developing plugins to request a forum and we'll get them set up.