id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
314506033,MDU6SXNzdWUzMTQ1MDYwMzM=,213,Documentation for plugins system,9599,closed,0,,,0,2018-04-16T05:27:07Z,2018-04-16T15:12:48Z,2018-04-16T15:12:48Z,OWNER,,"Documentation for #14 - how to write plugins, how to ship plugins to PyPI and how to use the `--plugins-dir` option added in #211 ",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/213/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed
314504812,MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0MTgxNzU1MjIw,212,New --plugins-dir=plugins/ option,9599,closed,0,,,0,2018-04-16T05:19:28Z,2018-04-16T05:22:18Z,2018-04-16T05:22:01Z,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/212,Refs #211,107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/212/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0,
314471743,MDU6SXNzdWUzMTQ0NzE3NDM=,211,Load plugins from a `--plugins-dir=plugins/` directory,9599,closed,0,,,6,2018-04-16T01:17:43Z,2018-04-16T05:22:02Z,2018-04-16T05:22:02Z,OWNER,,"In #14 and 33c7c53ff87c2 I've added working support for setuptools entry_points plugins. These can be installed from PyPI using `pip install ...`.

I imagine some projects will benefit from being able to add plugins without first publishing them to PyPI. Datasette already supports [loading custom templates](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/custom_templates.html#custom-templates) like so:

    datasette serve --template-dir=mytemplates/ mydb.db

I propose an additional option, `--plugins-dir=` which specifies a directory full of `blah.py` files which will be loaded into Datasette when the application server starts.

    datasette serve --plugins-dir=myplugins/ mydb.db

This will also need to be supported by `datasette publish` as those Python files should be copied up as part of the deployment.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/211/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed
314469126,MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0MTgxNzMxOTU2,210,"Start of the plugin system, based on pluggy",9599,closed,0,,,0,2018-04-16T00:51:30Z,2018-04-16T00:56:16Z,2018-04-16T00:56:16Z,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/210,Refs #14,107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/210/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0,