I don't think under Apache we will be able to have a NetBeans-endorsed collection of 3rd party plugins.
Clearly we won't be able to host them, but I'm not ever certain we could attach the NetBeans (and Apache) brand to a repository of code we don't really control or oversee much. I believe we could have some plugins that become NetBeans sub-projects if the authors donate them and relicense them under the Apache license and users might optionally install them. Apache OpenOffice has https://extensions.openoffice.org and https://templates.openoffice.org but I don't know how it works out from a hosting / licensing perspective. We should be able to point out some quality plugins, somehow... Maybe mentors could clear up? --emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 28 May 2018 11:33 AM, Christian Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
