Extension publishing

What

• Qt shall enable extension developers to publish their extensions to Qt Extension Store, to be discovered, installed and utilized by Qt Creator users. 
• The extension publishing & discovery mechanism shall be transferred to be Github-based. 

Why

• Table stakes. This functionality is provided by competing IDEs. 

Dependencies

• Legal
• Web development
• Business IT 

User stories / acceptance criteria

• As a software developer I want to enroll myself as an extension publisher
• As an extension publisher I want to publish an extension, including the changelog between versions
• As an extension publisher I want to publish an update to an extension
• As an extension publisher I want to see statistics on how my extension has been downloaded
• As an extension user I want to view the version history of an extension

Tasks

• Resolve the legal situation (= review and collaboratively edit the draft Qt Creator Extension publisher agreement document)
• Define publisher enrollment flow (data model & API)
• Define extension publishing flow (data model & API)
• Implement extension service backend changes as per flow changes
• Write user documentation for extension creation & publishing (heavily referring to publisher agreement) 
  • Create example of an extension 
• Write user documentation for plugin -> extension conversion