Comment 33 for bug 278153

the theory is good, but in practice its not easy to hack those plugins together unless you did a certain amount of network-manager upstream development. The right way to move forward would be to get involved upstream with development of plugins and then once we see that we have all the know-how in ubuntu that allows us to do eventual fixes, we can consider to "main" those packages even though upstream has not committed to support them.

That said, I think we should talk to upstream about making plugins top-level products. I will do that once the release dust has settled a bit. Feel free to remind me.