<div dir="ltr">Thanks. That helps a lot. I figured history factored in as it always does with these kinds of things. But coming in cold, it is especially confusing now that I know there are two versions. I'll assume that the included version is sufficient until someone here says differently.<div><br></div><div>It would help if this was documented a bit more. A simple "README" file in the lcnaf GitHub repository mentioning that it is an even more enhanced version of the included version and explaining the differences would go a long way in explaining the situation. I'm not sure who maintains that code, but it certainly would have helped me.</div><div><br></div><div>And thanks for pointing me to the wiki. It looks like I'm going to have to do some perusing of that in addition to the tech docs in order to really understand how to support this software.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM Christine Di Bella <<a href="mailto:christine.dibella@lyrasis.org">christine.dibella@lyrasis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Tom,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The LCNAF plugin is a very rare case in that it’s both bundled with the standard ArchivesSpace application and, because of its popularity, lives on its own in case it needs to be updated between our releases due to changes in LC’s service.
The program team has discussed doing only one or the other because it is undeniably duplicative for code maintainers and confusing for users (though, on the users side, most people use the one that comes bundled with ArchivesSpace and don’t realize there is
a separate one). The functionality of both LCNAF plugins is identical. For now we’ve continued to keep it the way it is pending some larger discussions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Virtually all other plugins only live on our their own, and most plugins are authored by and maintained by community members, not the ArchivesSpace program. The community-maintained Awesome ArchivesSpace list links to a lot of great ones:
<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/awesome-archivesspace" target="_blank">https://github.com/archivesspace/awesome-archivesspace</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For some additional context, there’s some information about plugins and considerations for turning a plugin into core code at
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https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/916062227/Making+a+Plug-In+part+of+the+Core+Code</a>. That document also links to an outline of an evaluation process for considering feature contributions, including whether something might best be
handled as a plugin: <a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/360546309/ArchivesSpace+Process+for+Evaluating+Potential+Feature+Contributions+to+the+Core+Code" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] lcnaf plugin<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ok, so I did not see that lcnaf was included in ArchivesSpace right from the beginning. I thought I had to get the files from GitHub as I would with other plugins, but I see that they are there. In fact several are there.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Why is some code added to the zip file but left as a plugin while other code is added to the software? <u></u><u></u></p>
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oauth needs to be compiled). How is it determined what goes where and how it is or is not included?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry, but this is rather confusing to the newbie. <u></u><u></u></p>
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archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>> on behalf of Tom Hanstra <<a href="mailto:hanstra@nd.edu" target="_blank">hanstra@nd.edu</a>><br>
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<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] lcnaf plugin</span> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I continue my quest to get our site set up and have been told that I need to install the lcnaf plugin. I've got a few questions:<u></u><u></u></p>
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