I know one can never truly keep control of a thread once it's born, but...
I'm sure there's all kinds of feature request threads out there for calibre's editor, so I'm thinking a lot of these ideas might find a better home in one of them. Or maybe a plugin-wishlist thread is order.
Rather than a "what kind of plugins do we want" kind of thing, I believe Kovid's at the earlier (and much more "meta") phase of "what do I make accessible (and how) so that plugin developers can do a variety of things that interest them?" Or at least
thinking about that sort of stuff, anyway. For a future rainy day.
This was only intended (on my part, anyway) to be sort of a "how best to present/expose stuff, so third parties can
do stuff with that stuff" conversation. You know... meta-stuffs.