Change record status: 
Project: 
Introduced in branch: 
8.x-3.x
Introduced in version: 
8.x-3.0-rc1
Description: 

To be able to alter the import behavior, the notion of import policies introduced in 8.x-3.x and been made extendable with plugins declared with YAML files.

You can declare new import policies with YAML files and then set it on the import configurations.

Then your custom plugins/code can use theses policies to act as you want on your websites and during the imports.

See the two features already using this concept:

Impacts: 
Site builders, administrators, editors
Module developers
Site templates, recipes and distribution developers