I'm a newbie to the Netbeans community but this does sound reasonable to me.
I'm particularly interested because of the C/C++ plugin source.. And if I can help with that one, I'm more than happy to put some effort into it. -brad w. On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 12:31 PM Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > Here's the rough proposal: > > 1. Move all the plugins to Maven Central. Blockers: we don't know how to do > that, if someone can advise, that will help. > > 2. Refactor the plugins.netbeans.org application so that (1) NBM files > cannot be uploaded anymore and (2) instead of uploading, references need to > be registered to the location of the NBM on Maven Central. Blockers: this > is being investigated at the moment, timelines not known yet. This is > doable because the plugins.netbeans.org application has been donated to > Apache as part of the 3rd donation. > > 3. Deploy the plugins.netbeans.org application from the Apache NetBeans > VM. > There should be no problem with that since we'll not be distributing the > NBMs from Apache (which would have been a problem since Apache distributes > source code only) but only pages or references to Maven Central. > > 4. Enable the Plugin Manager inside Apache NetBeans to install NBM files > directly from Maven Central, based on the references retrieved via the > Update Center from the plugins.netbeans.org application running on the > Apache NetBeans VM. > > 5. Continue using the plugins.netbeans.org URL, except that this will now > be running at Apache and pointing to the plugins.netbeans.org application > running on the Apache NetBeans VM. > > So, the above would mean that nothing is running on Oracle servers anymore, > all NBMs that we care about are on Maven Central (and source code could > mostly be on GitHub, except where plugin owners don't want their source > code exposed, in which case they'd have it in their local proprietary > backends), and we have the plugins.netbeans.org application refactored and > simply showing Maven co-ordinated to the plugins on Maven Central. > > How does that sound? > > Gj > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 8:21 PM Antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > After the 11.0 release announcement, where we migrated most of > > bits.netbeans.org, shall we tackle the plugins.netbeans.org website and > > infrastructure for 12.0? Or is it too early? Also, what's missing in > > netbeans.apache.org that still exists in netbeans.org and we want to > keep? > > > > I can't remember when the infra @ Oracle for plugins.netbeans.org is > > going to be shutdown, but the sooner we start thinking on hosting the > > plugins, the better. This is something that is going to take us long, I > > think. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Antonio > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > >
