#1036 implements a discovery method that expects plugin definition files (schema.yml, actions.yml etc.) to be located at <some-plugin>/.versionpress. There should also be an external location from where the definitions could be loaded, two initial candidates being:

wp-content/plugins/.versionpress
wp-content/vpdb/.versionpress (or some other folder name)

I like the plugins folder better because not everything in a plugin definition is tied to a DB and vpdb is very database-specific.

Inside it, it would probably just be directories for plugins so the complete example would look like:

wp-content/plugins/.versionpress
    akismet/
        schema.yml
        actions.yml
    woocommerce/
        schema.yml
        actions.yml
    ...

After this is implemented, there will be an online repo of these definitions, sort of like DefinitelyTyped for TypeScript. VersionPress will be downloading plugin definitions from that repo to this local structure. See #1243.

🏁 PR #1246