I can host those 20GB. Is there some easy way to download everything? --emi
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:40 PM Matthias Bläsing <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> wrote: > > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 12.11.2019, 13:51 +0100 schrieb Jiří Kovalský: > > we are preparing decommission of the old Plugin Portal 2.0 [1] which > > is hosted on Oracle infrastructure. Before we turn off the switch we > > need to decide what we want to do with the plugins contributed by all > > the kind NetBeans community members over the years totaling ~20 GB. I > > believe that we don't want to just delete these NBM files. > > > > [1] http://plugins.netbeans.org/ > > > > The problem here is the restriction that we can't use Apache > > infrastructure to host any 3rd party binaries. The only thing what we > > could potentially do is to publish module catalogs with references to > > some other publicly accessible places. > > > > Any opinions on what is the right thing to do? > > > > I think it would be a good idea to try to reach all contributers (I > assume a mail address is present) and get them to the new (still to be > completed) plugin portal. > > I would not host the plugins anywhere. If I remember correctly the > plugin portal was a wild mix of licenses and so from my perspective > this is a dangerous endeavour. For example take a GPLed plugin, you'd > need the source code to redistribute it properly. > > This is totally different, to the code donation from oracle. Even if we > end up not integrating all donated code, it is still usable (i.e. later > intergrated or used outside Apache NetBeans). The same does not hold > true for all plugins. > > Oracle could think about creating a static site, that way the plugins > would still be accessible, could be transfered to a passive file host > and be done. > > Greetings > > Matthias > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
