Define PluginCommandModule for plugins
Allow plugin developers to extend this class to declare additional SSH
commands. Plugins can extend PluginCommandModule to bind commands that
extend BaseCommand to names that are invoked by the user.
Change-Id: I78bcd917d31b86777ab593add7dd9ef01651a253
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+Gerrit Code Review - Plugin Development
+=======================================
+
+A plugin in gerrit is tightly coupled code that runs in the same
+JVM as gerrit. It has full access to all gerrit internals. Plugins
+are coupled to a specific major.minor gerrit version.
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+To start development, you may download the sample maven project, which downloads
+the following dependencies;
+
+* gerrit-sdk.jar file that matches the war file you are developing against
+
+
+Manifest
+--------
+
+Plugins need to include the following data in the jar manifest file;
+Gerrit-Plugin = plugin_name
+Gerrit-Module = pkg.class
+
+SSH Commands
+------------
+
+You may develop plugins which provide commands that can be accessed through the SSH interface.
+These commands register themselves as a part of SSH Commands (link).
+
+Each of your plugins commands needs to extend BaseCommand.
+
+Any plugin which implements at least one ssh command needs to also provide a class which extends
+the PluginCommandModule in order to register the ssh command(s) in its configure method which you
+must override.
+
+Registering is done by calling the command(String commandName).to(ClassName<? extends BaseCommand> klass)
+
+GERRIT
+------
+Part of link:index.html[Gerrit Code Review]
