traefik / traefik/plugin-service

Plugin lifecycle

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Description

Current Behavior

One can
a) change gh account name : from tommoulard to tomMoulard, for instance
b) move or fork the (same) plugin to another account: from my_repo to my_company, for instance

When it happens:

  1. plugin-service fails to download (valid) plugin with the old naming. For instance, tommoulard/fail2ban plugin is still valid up to v6.0.2. You can check it here.
  2. The change is not visible in plugin-catalog UI
  3. It generates tons of (false) error log.

Expected Behavior

When one rename his gh account, move or depreciate his plugin, this should be handled gracefully, on both backend & frontend sides. Both plugin developer or TraefikLabs should be able to handle this use case.

⚠️ GitHub accounts are case in-sensitive but Go Modules are case sensitive.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing plugin-service's plugin download and error handling, then inspect the plugin-catalog UI path described in the issue. Determine how renamed, moved, or deprecated plugins are represented and how GitHub case sensitivity affects Go module names. Done means these cases are handled gracefully on both backend and frontend without false errors or stale catalog data.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
full-stack
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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