1. Yesterday I published a beta version of what is going to be a Community add-in repository for MonoDevelop. This web site is based on the Cydin project, developed during the last hack-week at Novell.

    The functionality it has is basically what explained in my last blog post:
    • The add-in developer creates a new project in the web site by specifying a name, description and version control urls to the source code. It currently supports Subversion, Git and Bazaar.
    • A build service pulls the code from the version control repositories and builds it.
    • The built add-ins are published in an standard Mono.Addins add-in repository in the web site.
    • Users can subscribe that repository and install the add-ins.
    This site is still under development and needs testing, so I'd like people to start publishing add-ins to see how it works. I intend to publish the source code of Cydin so that other Mono.Addins based application can create their own add-in repositories. However, before doing it I want to polish a bit the code and add some documentation (and that requires time).

    The long term goal is to have a kind of add-in marketplace site, where developers can publish add-ins and users can browse, download, rate and comment them.

    For now, I'm happy with having a place where contributors can make add-ins easily available to all users. So if you have developed an add-in for MonoDevelop, please register it!

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My complete name is Lluis Sanchez Gual, and I work as a developer for Novell. I'm part of the Mono team, and I'm leading the MonoDevelop project, a very exciting open source IDE for GNOME.
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