What are the reasons you don't submit your addon to official repo?
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My proposition could be not appropriate and surely old school, but why not make a system based of 3 official repo (stable, testing, unstable) with a submission system based on FTP.

There will be first the "unstable" Repo where developers will have FTP access to a directory corresponding to their add-on (created by XBMC repo maintainers). Then developers will be free to propose/updates their stuff into the format they want (zipped or not). Do not need to have GIT/SVN functionalities. The repo will be only for providing stuff, not for development purpose. GIT/Sourceforge/GoogleCode services are already dedicated for that. The Repo will not be directly accessible for XBMC users and they will need to check an option into XBMC to access it (and be informed that it would be at their own risk and that the XBMC team was not responsible of the content).

When a developer thought that the version of his add-on is sufficiently stable it will put it on the "testing" Repo (again through FTP). Here XBMC repo maintainers will check if the add-on respect the rules to be accepted into the stable Repo. If not... developers will have to propose a new candidate version. If the add-on is accepted, the XBMC repo maintainers will put it into the official stable Repo. XBMC users do not need to have access to this repo from XBMC.

The stable repo will be similar to the on we have actually.
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RE: What are the reasons you don't submit your addon to official repo? - by Angelscry - 2013-02-15, 17:27
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