[eschwartz]

I would suggest uploading them to a GitHub repository and telling people "use it if you want, but none of this is supported and if you have issues, you get to fix them yourself".

Anyone using a plugin would need to build it from a directory of python files that they manually obtained, and there's a much lower guarantee of suitability than if it was in the official plugin index. OTOH it can still prove useful to people, if only as an example or as code snippets, and who knows -- someone may contribute useful changes.

You can configure the repo to disallow issue requests, and only allow pull requests. It's a pretty good way to guarantee that only people with code to share can start a conversation.