0008-community-plugins.md needs discuss

[wivwiv]

@z8674558

Yes, I think it's important to support and promote community plug-ins.

EMQ encourages the community to contribute useful plug-ins. If we do it well enough, we can help the author promote it.

0008 is a little simple and inflexible

1. How to approve new plug-ins for the released EMQ X version
2. The security of the plug-in, whether the plug-in is officially recommended by EMQ, and whether it infringes the copyright or interests of some people
3. The version compatibility of the plug-in, users may ask: this plug-in is cool, but can I use it in my EMQ X?

Grafana sign-a-plugin
Grafama plugins

We can build an online plug-in market, which has been discussed before, but we have encountered some technical problems.

If we can solve the problem now, the plug-in market looks very cool

1. Can we provide a *.zip file (plugin installation package, like emqx_auth_sqlite_plugins.zip), which contains the main *.beam file. The user can set it to the lib/ directory, unzip it, and reload it?

Usage

wget https://market.emqx.io/plugins/emqx/emqx_auth_sqlite.zip?version=1.3.1
unzip emqx_auth_sqlite.zip
mv emqx_auth_sqlite/ /opt/emqx/lib/

emqx_ctl plugins load  emqx_auth_sqlite

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@wivwiv

How to approve new plug-ins for the released EMQ X version

If a plugin is approved after the release of v4.3.1, for example, the plugin is listed as approved from v4.3.2.

The security of the plug-in, whether the plug-in is officially recommended by EMQ,

We can provide approved badge that can be included in README in a plugin's github repository.

and whether it infringes the copyright or interests of some people

We need to check if plug-in's dependencies have OSS licenses that allow us to use the software.

The version compatibility of the plug-in, users may ask: this plug-in is cool, but can I use it in my EMQ X?

Using CI, we ensure that approved plugins pass common tests with emqx loaded. Once passed, we can add the version information to the above-mentioned badge. We may obligate some test coverage before we approve a plugin.

We can build an online plug-in market, which has been discussed before, but we have encountered some technical problems.

Sounds nice. I am not sure if we can do it now though. Further investigation needed