Encouraging Contributions and Third Party Development
Contributions can be made by anybody no contribution is too small the team will review each contribution and will discuss if should be a feature part of the core or a modification.
Easy approval process for modifications and themes. Support both free and paid apps to appear on the modification and theme sites.
For mod and theme sites built in dedicated bugtracker/feature request for each project.
Rating system for mods/themes
Built in version control number back to the package manager useful for checking out of date modifications.
Out of date modifications and themes check via a task manager for themes/modifications hosted on ezforum.com allows forum admins to know if any of their software is outdated.
Themes can be installed by the package manager
Easy way for community members to upload translations to modification this always bugged me and then the modification author can approve them.
For themes look into integrating colorizethis appears to be an easy way for people to create their own color variations of a theme.
More to come!