Castopod Plugins

Castopod Plugins is a new modular framework which will allow anyone to develop their own plugins for the Castopod podcast hosting platform. Adding 3rd party plugins bring many advantages to Castopod, most notably a clean and versioned way to add custom features. This allows developers and users to make different tradeoffs by implementing and deploying features essential to them, whether or not these are acceptable as part of the core platform. It also helps with compliance at a global scale, without unnecessary censorship: some extensions will be legal to deploy in some jurisdictions but might be problematic in others. By further slimming down the core of Castopod server, modularity will improve overall code security. The project will allow the whole community to be an active part of future development, and will help better cater to the widely differing needs that podcasters have.