If you are a Grails developer who hasn’t read Marc Palmer’s blog post, “Do we need a commercial market for Grails Plugins?“, you need to do so. Now. I’ll wait.
The crux of the problem is adequately described in Marc’s GraphJam-worthy graph:
The problem is, this leads to a bunch of great ideas that are 3/4ths implemented, with lots of unimplemented great ideas still sitting around and twiddling their thumbs. (Autobase, I’m looking at you.) This does damage to the Grails ecosystem, starting with a lack of trust in plugins and ending with burnt out plugin developers angrily reclaiming their free time. So, how do we help the original developer make time for plugins, or how can we get other developers to step up and contribute (despite the consumer-developer paradigm)? That’s what Marc goes looking into, and both the original post and the comments are extremely insightful.
[PS: I'm thinking about integrating some link sharing capabilities into EnfranchisedMind so that I can queue up and share a bunch of good posts like this every month or so. Thoughts? —Admin]
[PPS: I've closed comments. Go post them on Marc's blog.—Author]
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