I like the idea. Good plan. Gj
On Monday, May 28, 2018, Christian Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Devs, > > long time ago, there was mail thread (private) with Geertjan and a guy who > created an „organization“ on GitHub for NetBeans Plugins, where I wanted to > join and added all of my plugins to this repo, to have it under a global, > public (official) repo for NetBeans. I don’t know what happened, I couldn’t > figure out the guy who created it, maybe have a look into my mails. > > Anyway, the Thing is that it doesn’t work out, maybe lack of time, only > one person was responsible for this or whatever. So why I wanted to bring > this up again is, that in my opinion, it would be nice if we can have a > GitHub repo/organization (Maybe Apache/NetBeans-Plugins) where we can add > all of our 3rd-party-plugins, which are not part of the core and/or a > contrib repo again or whatever. I don’t know the history of the contrib > repo anymore, since we don’t have it atm? > > I don’t know how the contrib repo was handled, but afaik, Maybe we don’t > Need it anymore or so? The contrib repo still exists with a lot of features > (some are old, some are strill working) who are still not part of the core > but part of a Plugin but to add it, you have to add the contrib repo as a > dependency to the Plugins section. > > So what do you think, do we still need a contrib repo? If yes, how could > it be handled? As a GitHub or Apache git repo with a GitHub Mirror? Should > we have an official Apache/netbeans-plugins repo like JetBrains have it for > there community Plugins? https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins > > Thread is kind of brainstorming. > > > Cheers > > Chris >
