Allow for Sharing of Custom Compile Steps

[chrisgrieser]

I have by now created a bunch of Custom Compile steps (among others: #44, #48), and I was wondering whether you could maybe designate a place collecting custom user steps? I assume my custom steps could also be of interest to others.

For example a folder in the repo, to which one can make PRs? The contents of that folder could then be displayed in the compile step collection, but under a heading "Community Steps", that way people without coding skills can access them, but it is clear that you are not responsible for fixing bugs with them like with the built-in steps (which could lighten the workload for you).

Also, this would have the added benefits of providing some examples for others, which you could refer to in the compile docs.

[kevboh]

Ha, I was just thinking about exactly this a couple of days ago. I want to do it; there are definitely security concerns, but I think having them be PRs against some folder here could solve for that. Thanks for clarifying it!

[b-camphart]

@kevboh What about having a project here in github as a list of custom compile steps? Users would need to understand that they download and use them at their own risk, but it could provide a way to have a repository of steps without cluttering the issues list.

[kevboh]

@b-camphart yeah, I think that's a reasonable solution—I assume by project in github you mean a dedicated repo?

[b-camphart]

I was actually thinking of creating a project within this repo as a way of keeping it closely related, but it turns out that github projects can't be publically writable. So, yeah, maybe a separate repository.

[kevboh]

Yeah, I think dedicated repo with PRs is best.

[kevboh]

This now lives at https://github.com/obsidian-community/longform-compile-steps. Thanks @chrisgrieser!