Allow plugins to declare a release track

[natm]

NetBox version

v4.1.4

Feature type

New functionality

Triage priority

I volunteer to perform this work (if approved)

Proposed functionality

When defining a plugin it would be helpful if along with the version, the release track could be optionally declared, for example dev, release, etc.

from netbox.plugins import PluginConfig

class FooBarConfig(PluginConfig):
    name = 'foo_bar'
    verbose_name = 'Foo Bar'
    description = 'An example NetBox plugin'
    version = '0.0.1'
    author = 'Jeremy Stretch'
    author_email = '[email protected]'
    base_url = 'foo-bar'
    release_track = 'release'

config = FooBarConfig

Use case

When installed plugins are listed the track could be displayed along with the version. This could be used to distinguish if a plugin has been installed from a published release or is running from a local development clone.

Database changes

None

External dependencies

None

[jeremystretch]

Makes sense to me. Do we want to go as far as declaring a set of valid values for this attribute, or leave it up to the individual plugins?

[natm]

Makes sense to me. Do we want to go as far as declaring a set of valid values for this attribute, or leave it up to the individual plugins?

Yes it would be nice if the options could be constrained to dev and release with a default of release if the field is not specified.