> this is great! Thanks for making this available! I would love to get going > again with the LicenseChanger plugin and check some of the other projects. >
Ah, licenses. I've been thinking - there are several places in NetBeans that manage license files / license comments, and that really could use an API and a common way to store user-added ones and a library of common ones, so something like LicenseChanger, and also project customizers that let you set a license and auto-add it to new source files could all work from the same thing. My NodeJS plugin (the one for people really using NodeJS, not just using npm for HTML 5 projects - which I recently did some updates to) does its own thing on that too, because NodeJS has some standard names for licenses in package.json files. > The source code has not been donated yet, or has it? I could not find it > in the Apache Git yesterday, but maybe I just missed it. It did not seem to > reside in the contrib folder. The donation should be possible owing to the > Sun/Oracle CLA that every contributor to contrib had to sign at one point, > correct? > > Can and should these projects live in the main Apache NetBeans Git? > That would certainly make sense to me. Probably the status of it is a question for Geertjan? I started from a conversion of the original hg repository to git with full history (much less extensive than the main codebase, so why send it off to a black hole?). So it ought to be usable as-is with official blessing and whatever IP process Apache requires, same as the rest. When I did the conversion, I added some tooling to, as part of building the parent pom, generate an index of what was built, with descriptions and versions extracted from the bundle and manifests: https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib/blob/master/catalogue.md -Tim
