Agenda item:
We're thinking about killing the cookiecutter-based plugin templating functionality (as well as q2-dummy-plugin) as it's hard to keep up-to-date, hasn't been super useful (in my opinion), and we've noticed plugin devs have forgotten to remove unnecessary dependencies (e.g. q2-dummy-plugin) and commented out code from the templated package. Maintaining cookiecutter/q2-dummy-plugin is also a duplication of effort because we are effectively maintaining two sources of info for plugin developers via the plugin dev docs and the code generated by cookiecutter. We would instead like to focus our efforts on improving the plugin developer documentation and making that the single source of truth.