Hey Devs, long time ago, there was mail thread (private) with Geertjan and a guy who created an „organization“ on GitHub for NetBeans Plugins, where I wanted to join and added all of my plugins to this repo, to have it under a global, public (official) repo for NetBeans. I don’t know what happened, I couldn’t figure out the guy who created it, maybe have a look into my mails.
Anyway, the Thing is that it doesn’t work out, maybe lack of time, only one person was responsible for this or whatever. So why I wanted to bring this up again is, that in my opinion, it would be nice if we can have a GitHub repo/organization (Maybe Apache/NetBeans-Plugins) where we can add all of our 3rd-party-plugins, which are not part of the core and/or a contrib repo again or whatever. I don’t know the history of the contrib repo anymore, since we don’t have it atm? I don’t know how the contrib repo was handled, but afaik, Maybe we don’t Need it anymore or so? The contrib repo still exists with a lot of features (some are old, some are strill working) who are still not part of the core but part of a Plugin but to add it, you have to add the contrib repo as a dependency to the Plugins section. So what do you think, do we still need a contrib repo? If yes, how could it be handled? As a GitHub or Apache git repo with a GitHub Mirror? Should we have an official Apache/netbeans-plugins repo like JetBrains have it for there community Plugins? https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins Thread is kind of brainstorming. Cheers Chris
