Anyone can make plugins, but they will only run on stock mainnet Armory if we have signed them. You can modify the source to add your own public key to the list of trustees if you want to run plugins someone else signed. I don't think we added an option in the UI for that yet, I'm not sure if we are going down that path. I think the internal talk was to sign trusted 3rd parties' key with ours so they can do their own plugin dev, and revoke privileges through the announcement system in case someone goes rogue. You should really ask etotheipi or Circus_Peanut for details, I wasn't part of this development effort.
All plugins run unsigned on testnet.
Sounds like the best way. As with much about anything you guys come up with! :-)
I'll get in contact with them.
Do you have another copy of the blockchain you can sink Armory with? It sounds like missing block data in Core's raw files.
Hmm, sounds weird to me. I connect/sync my local bitcoin-cli to one instance in my local network, so it's fine for me to let it reload the blockchain. Will try that, drop the outcome here, and send logs your way should it not solve the prob.
Thank you for the help,
Ente