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[hameau]

Carlos solution is of course desired, make plugins extensible to begin with using hooks, but overloading outdated plugins or extending even maintained ones is definetly a need for the community,

I can understand the probable reluctance of authors to provide hooks for extensions (support nightmare) and I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to do it. I can also understand the reluctance of extension plugin writers to fork something that is still actively maintained, although there is nothing wrong with this (GPL) and is probably the Right Way, but that also leads to a nightmare of support.

On the other hand, a plugin that is unmaintained and the author has disappeared from the forum should certainly be forked if someone wants to take it on, with due reference to the original work. Perhaps a flag on the unmaintained plugin (in Extend) so that the original source code remains available, rather than removing it.