There should be an extension mechanism for admin pages that show up in the admin sidebar for all projects. Currently we are limited to making custom settings in a tool. That requires the user to install the "foobar" tool just to get to foobar options. It should be accessible immediately.
The extension mechanism eventually will need deployment configuration options to control which projects get the custom menu item & page. For example, only a certain neighborhood; not neighborhood --init-- projects, etc.
allura:db/4818
forge-classic:db/6550