On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, 18:52 Matthias Bläsing, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If the current portal and > > process cannot meet those requirements, then we need to replace it. > > As one of the people doing actually work on the portal, I get fed up by > people knowing "the right" way and don't do it. This comment is not so > much directed at you Neil, but more on the general tone of this debate, > which just plain makes me ignore these emails as the just annoy me. > Sorry, that wasn't meant as a criticism of the portal itself or your work on it. But it requires a process that doesn't seem to be working. When I hear (off-list) that we have 30+ pending plugin verifications for NB15 a week or so before we're scheduled to push a new release with a currently empty plugin centre, it's hard to see how this process is working for us. To turn this on its head, then, how would you suggest addressing this problem within the existing portal? And what needs to be done by the rest of us? By "replace" incidentally I didn't mean replacing what the portal currently does, but solely looking at what is needed to provide a catalog file to the IDE. And make sure every committer can easily participate in verification. And I still don't see why we're reverifying the same plugin versions for each NetBeans version. We didn't do this until NB 13, and changing the version scheme was not meant to create extra work for us or plugin authors. Best wishes, Neil
