There are a few known unknowns (and also unknown unknowns) in this area. Firstly, what we know is the the Plugin Portal itself (i.e., the application at plugins.netbeans.org) is going to be part of the 3rd donation, i.e., the sources of the application have been audited and will be donated to Apache as part of the 3rd donation (i.e., right now we have completed the 1st and 2nd donation and are working on the 3rd donation which is focused on tutorials and related resources, as well as the Plugin Portal application). Where it will then be hosted is not entirely clear -- possibly on the netbeans-vm at Apache, possibly at one of our partner organizations, e.g., DukeScript run by Toni Epple in Munich, etc.
Secondly, once we have the Plugin Portal application up and running somewhere (ideally with the same URL, and if hosted outside Apache branded in such a way that its relationship to Apache NetBeans is clear), the next question will be where to host the NBMs, which will be uploaded via the Plugin Portal, i.e., the NBMs could be hosted somewhere else. They could be considered to be convenience binaries somehow in Apache terms and could then be distributed via Apache hosting, though that's probably not viable. Thirdly, there's the question where the sources of the plugins will be located -- and indeed individual GitHub repos for each individual code base would be logical. Anyway, that's where things are and I may have overlooked some developments. Gj On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Jesse Glick <[email protected]> wrote: > Resurrecting this thread, since Tim Boudreau recently Mavenized the > contrib repo: > > https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib > > The Mavenization is certainly welcome (to me at least!) but someone > needs to officially decide what to *do* with all that stuff. Probably > all the live modules or logical module groups (those active on the > Plugin Portal) should each get their own GH repo somewhere—does not > make sense to shove them all into one repo. And then how do bits get > distributed to users? I am not sure what happened to deadlock and its > CI job for contrib modules. Plugin Portal still seems to be alive but > what is its future? Of > > http://plugins.netbeans.org/my-plugins > > there are a number of plugins I would like to keep running and > available; some were already being maintained on GitHub, but some > (notably quickfilechooser) were not. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
