I'm no expert on this but... I tried some time back to take the nbpython contribution to integrate it into the Apache Netbeans work... The general input I got at the time was that the nbPython contribution was to be included in coming donations from Oracle which required some pre-donation checks to ensure no Oracle IP was present. Some of this may have involved removal of some code (which might require further updates).
I believe the contribution paperwork signed when becoming a committer more or less gave ownership/rights to Oracle so it was dependent on that. However I believe in some cases the original contributors could have some say in it if the given work was abandoned or no longer supported. There was a call out to see which of these contributions the community wanted to have donated. With some being identified as candidates, others being viewed as deprecated/not worth maintaining (i.e., requiring too much work to bring it in line), Beyond that, I'm not sure any further donation work against these is happening anymore. I think part of the work when doing so might involve (1) updating licenses where applicable. Some of the contributions may have existing licenses which did allow usages but still had to be in compliance with Oracle licensing where applicable. (2) managing the independent repo with contributions, (3) delivering releasable artifacts (nbm, plugin portal, maven repo publications, etc.) (4) update for Netbeans compatibility (i.e. new NB versions builds with applicable API compatibility, etc.) I believe part of this contribution fork also included some "mavenizing" of some of the contributions. Once again...not an expert but that is my understanding of it. Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:29 PM Chris <christian.l...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hey, > > we have this wonderful repo here with all contribs since sun/oracle i > think: https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib so what is the > correct procedure, If I want to extend or fix a package let's say, like > this: > > https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib/tree/master/quickfilechooser > > Do I need to create a new plugin for this and this will by my "fork" of > this or how should we do this? Should all of them treated as 3rd party > plugins? > > > Cheers > > Chris > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > >
