Write up a guide / documentation about the plugin system

[zenspider]

Folks should know what the plugin system is, what it's intended use is, that there are some things it isn't meant to be used for, but also, where to go to ask for help to determine whether something is a good fit for the plugin system

and/or ask for extension points to be added to the plugin system API. I will do some research on my own on this if there is time available and contribute if I end up coming up with anything useful, but please don't let that stop anyone who's actively working on RubyGems from beating me to it.

From: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29243&group_id=126&atid=578

[zenspider]

Assigning to @drbrain for first draft. Please assign back for review/editing.

[djberg96]

Any progress?

[copiousfreetime]

There is some very basic documentation in the rubygems plugin guide which ends up getting published on the rubygems site: http://guides.rubygems.org/plugins/

A pull request for in rubygems guides repo would probably be the best.

[ghost]

I attempted a draft here:
rubygems/guides#198

It's not complete, and most probably contains errors (either about the
plugin system, or english texts correctness), but I can fix and update
it.

what it's intended use is, that there are some things it isn't meant to be used for

This part I'm not sure how to address it, @zenspider would you please
have one or more example about what we shouldn't do with the plugin
API?

[zenspider]

6.5 years later? No.

[ghost]

Sorry I decided to start contributing here only a few days ago :-)
I like to start by oldest entries.

By the way I used your gem graph as an example in the draft I wrote, I
hope you don't mind.

If there are no other concerns, then maybe my changes once merged will
allow to close this issue eventually :-)

[bronzdoc]

closed by rubygems/guides#198