Meeting Minute 2022-01-05
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###### tags: `working-group` `plugin`

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- **Date:** 2022-01-05
- **Agenda**
- [last meeting](https://hackmd.io/D6dWiLOAQ-uWNKvZUa7UDw)
- Kevin - which plugin engine should we recommend for the hackathon on Jan 18
- We should make it clear that npe2 is still being polished (i.e., users will have to separately install npe2, docs are being updated, bugs are being found/squashed), but they should use npe2 if possible
- support for npe1 should be at least 6 months and the migration should be relatively painless (autoconvert tool is already working pretty well)
- npe2 compatibility strategy
- migration
- autogenerated docs
- **Participants:**
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Priorities going forward
- hardening
- Plugin activation lifetime (enable/disable)
- re-evaluate ownership and *creation/lifetime* of plugin manager instance (currently on `PluginManager.instance()`)
- dynamic plugin registry
- keybindings
- menus
- command palette
- async reader interface
- needs design and a lot of other stuff
- streaming, subvolume selection
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## Next steps
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## Notes
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- [ ] After the meeting add the minutes to the 'working-group/plugins' folder of [napari/meeting-notes](https://github.com/napari/meeting-notes).

## Links

* [Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18zNXI5M2VjNnZ0cDhzbWhtN2R2NXVvdDB2NEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t)
* [HackMD space](https://hackmd.io/team/napari-wg-plugin)
* [Recorded meeting notes](https://github.com/napari/meeting-notes/tree/master/2021/working-groups/plugins)