Hi all, A couple of months ago, we talked about how great it would be to have a more powerful plugin system (thread subject was "Country-specific forks" [1]). The current implementation have some problems. For instance, it's not possible to properly manage plugins with a VCS (bug 15879 [2] try to address this issue) Alex and I have started to write a new plugin system, as an attempt to fix the problems of the current implementation. It's still in a very "alpha" status, but we would like to hear what you think of it. Code is in BibLibre repository, branch koha-module-poc: http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git Features: * VCS-compatible (every directory under the modules directory and containing a module.yaml file is a module) * Allow modules to define custom "URL routes" (see module/router.pl) * Allow modules to modify the intranet top menu (so they can add a link to their custom routes) * Allow modules to have their own TT include files and TT plugins A sample module was made to demonstrate these features: http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git This module creates a new page which display some "lorem ipsum" text fetched from loripsum.net, and add a link to this page in the intranet top menu. Very basic but it shows how it works. Quick start: 1. git remote add biblibre http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git 2. git checkout -b koha-module-poc biblibre/koha-module-poc 3. installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl 4. misc/devel/update_dbix_class_files.pl 5. mkdir /path/to/modules 6. Edit $KOHA_CONF and add a line <modules_dir>/path/to/modules</modules_dir> 7. cd /path/to/modules && git clone http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git LoremIpsum (note: the directory's name is important) 8. Go to Administration > Modules 9. Enable the module LoremIpsum 10. You should now see a new link in the top menu Final note: we would like to work on it during the hackfest in Thessaloniki, so if you are interested, let us know! [1] http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-February/042382.ht... [2] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15879 -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com> BibLibre