Hi Kevin, The sandbox was created to give existing Apache committers a place to create plugins that may potentially be brought up to full released plugins. The benefits to putting them here are that the infrastructure with all the other plugins will be shared (Jira, Svn,Site etc) and it's the first place people look for plugins. If you aren't already an Apache committer, then an option would be to try the mojo project on codehaus (http://mojo.codehaus.org). This is where we host plugins that don't meet Apache licenses, or are developed by non-apache committers (or they choose to put it there for other reasons). The barriers to entry are lower in mojo, but you still need to be active for a while and submit plugins and patches via jira until you get voted in with full commit rights.
Hosting a plugin yourself can certainly be easier in the short term, but you will get more exposure and potential users and developers on either of the 2 communities I mentioned. It's also easier to get your builds onto the central repository so people can easily use them. Hope that helps. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Menard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sandbox question Hi all, I have an immature jython plugin I've been working on that has largely been used internally. It looks like something that the sandbox could be useful for, but I'm debating the merits of just hosting it myself. I guess what would help me is understand what the sandbox provides. Is it just an SVN area? Where would plugin docs, site, etc. be hosted? Is there some sort of graduation path up to a fully supported plugin? Thanks, Kevin Kevin Menard Servprise International, Inc. 800.832.3823 x308 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
