@Andy: I did not want to imply you suggested authentication as a plugin. I thought more like it could be done as a Plugin for GT provides the hooks. In my opinion it could be done without changing the core and I did imply and think you shared that opinion. No offense .

Trac is one of many bugtracker solutions and was meant as an example. Piwik uses Trac, other developments work with bugzilla or mantis or whatever else there is on the market. The idea was to talk about structure. Maybe it is not neccesary that a couple of people work on the same code. I agree that this is not trivial. But it would be nice to keep track on improvement suggestions and bugs in a structured way. When you publish a new Plugin there is a new forum post, some feedback, then the post fades away - literally spoken. If someday there is an issue there is a new post or maybe a private message and after a couple of years you have a bunch of posts and no history. A bugtracker looks like a better approach to me and collecting the Plugins in one place makes sense in my opinion.

It is a pity with GForum as it is with Links.