Enhancment for the Addon Manager

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I recently updated to 5.2.3 and had to reload all the plugins. Made much simpler with the Addon Manager for sure. Except some addons were missing. In particular was the Isotammi Filter+ addon.
After a lot of looking through the help pages and trials, I was finally successful finding it.
The problem is that these addons are not in one place on github. I have now 3 Isotammi locations to check (added to Projects in the Addon Manager).

Not all of users are that driven to scour the help pages to find these (there might even be more locations).

The idea I would like to float by you is this.
Why does that Addon Manage not have a Projects.ini file that is centrally managed and added to when new addons are created and put in new locations on Github, and then downloaded and updated anytime that the Addon manager is refreshed. Add version control just like addons have. Then us none techy users don’t have to search all over the place for these…

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3? I know there is one Isotammi project.

Kari (@kku) has some very useful experimentals in his personal repository. But, his do not have lists that the Addon Manager can leverage. You have to install them manually. When they are finished to his satisfaction, they are published in the Isotammi collection.

Eric Doutreleau (GlopGlop @grocanar ) has some of his published to a list for 3 finished addons… but not the experimental ones.

Jean Michault (JMichault @jmichault ) likewise has a list for 5 addons.

I share your frustration with finding and adding addons. (Which is why there is a thread: “What are your favorite plug-ins which have not been distributed?”) But that is hard to find too.

The other frustration is that it is SO hard to share Project configurations for the Addon Manager, scripts for SuperTool, Custom Filters, Dashboard layouts, and similar items.

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After going through the help files I now have these in the Projects tab. Could be more yet.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prculley/isotammi-addons/master/addons/gramps52

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/addons/master/gramps52

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Taapeli/isotammi-addons/master/addons/gramps52

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You can eliminate checking the Isotammi clone that Paul Culley was maintaining. He only did that during the beta phase of Gramps 5.2.0 development. It was while Addon Manager was transitioning from a TEXT list of addons to a JSON list. There was too much fiddling with the list format and they were not happy with the incompatibility 5.2 plugin registration was introducing.

The beta cycle needed a test project to make certain the feature worked with multiple projects. So that’s why Paul made the clone with JSON.

But that has all settled out and the Isotammi group now supports the 5.2 JSON list and they even figured out a way around the backward compatibility.

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