diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 69cb8522a83d..b6707ee799e5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ matrix:
           sources:
             - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test # if we don't specify this, the libstdc++6 we get is the wrong version
           packages:
+            - lib32stdc++6 # https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/6207
             - libstdc++6
             - fonts-droid
       before_script:
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ matrix:
             - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test # if we don't specify this, the libstdc++6 we get is the wrong version
             - llvm-toolchain-precise # for clang-format-5.0
           packages:
+            - lib32stdc++6 # https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/6207
             - libstdc++6
             - fonts-droid
             - clang-format-5.0
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ matrix:
         - flutter doctor
         - pub global activate flutter_plugin_tools
       script:
-        - ./script/plugin_tools.sh format --travis --clang-format=clang-format-5.0
+        - flutter format `pwd`/packages
         - ./script/plugin_tools.sh test
     # Job 3) Build example APKs and run Java tests
     - os: linux
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd0eba12dc44..34175e21074e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,37 @@
-# Helpful packages for Flutter
+# Flutter plugins
 
-This repository contains miscellaneous packages that help you build flutter
-apps. It is maintained by the Flutter team.
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/flutter/packages.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/flutter/packages)
+[![Build Status](https://api.cirrus-ci.com/github/flutter/packages.svg)](https://cirrus-ci.com/github/flutter/packages)
 
-# Contributing
+This repo is a companion repo to the main [flutter repo](
+https://github.com/flutter/flutter). It contains the source code for Flutter's
+first-party packages (i.e., packages developed by the core Flutter team).
+Check the [`packages`](./packages) directory to see all packages.
+
+These packages are also available on [pub](https://pub.dartlang.org/flutter/packages).
+
+## Issues
+
+Please file any issues, bugs, or feature requests in the [main flutter
+repo](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new).
+
+## Contributing
+
+If you wish to contribute a new package to the Flutter ecosystem, please
+see the documentation for [developing packages](https://flutter.io/developing-packages/). You can store
+your package source code in any GitHub repository (the present repo is only
+intended for packages developed by the core Flutter team). Once your package
+is ready you can [publish](https://flutter.io/developing-packages/#publish)
+to the [pub repository](https://pub.dartlang.org/).
+
+If you wish to contribute a change to any of the existing packages in this repo,
+please review our [contribution guide](https://github.com/flutter/packages/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md),
+and send a [pull request](https://github.com/flutter/packages/pulls).
+
+## Plugins
+These are the available packages in this repository.
+
+| Plugin | Pub |
+|--------|-----|
+| [palette_generator](./packages/palette_generator/) | [![pub package](https://img.shields.io/pub/v/palette_generator.svg)](https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/palette_generator) |
 
-See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on contributing to these
-packages.
diff --git a/analysis_options.yaml b/analysis_options.yaml
index 8661fe033e7a..f3520977cd42 100644
--- a/analysis_options.yaml
+++ b/analysis_options.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ analyzer:
     missing_return: warning
     # allow having TODOs in the code
     todo: ignore
+  exclude:
+    - 'flutter/**'
 
 linter:
   rules:
diff --git a/script/plugin_tools.sh b/script/plugin_tools.sh
index c2a3a0a49db7..516ba01d077c 100755
--- a/script/plugin_tools.sh
+++ b/script/plugin_tools.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ if [ "${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST}" = "false" ]; then
   echo "Running for all packages"
   pub global run flutter_plugin_tools "$@"
 else
+  echo "Looking for changes in $TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE"
   FLUTTER_CHANGED_GLOBAL=`git diff --name-only $TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE | grep -v packages | wc -l`
   FLUTTER_CHANGED_PACKAGES=`git diff --name-only $TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE | grep -o "packages/[^/]*" | sed -e "s/packages\///g" | sort | uniq | paste -s -d, -`
   if [ "${FLUTTER_CHANGED_PACKAGES}" = "" ] || [ $FLUTTER_CHANGED_GLOBAL -gt 0 ]; then