Well the question still remains unanswered, what relationship those projects 
have to ASF distribution of NiFi? I seriously doubt that anyone on this list 
suggests that all have to be part of the release. And if they are not then they 
are just individual projects managed in/out of ASF, right?

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> On Nov 1, 2015, at 17:10, Adam Estrada <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The elasticsearch project has a really cool plugin utility that automatically 
> downloads and builds plugins from GitHub, BitBucket, etc...
> 
> Has anyone taken a look at that?
> 
> A
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> ASF policy; a PMC should not be in the business of creating and
>> maintaining code 'somewhere else' and/or under another license, for
>> fear of confusion.
>> 
>> Gray area -- some PMC members can be in that business, as long as the
>> boundary is clear.
>> 
>> There was a thing called 'apache extras' for this. Unfortunately, it
>> was hosted as part of google code, which is defunct. As far as I know,
>> various plans to replace it have not come to fruition, but I might be
>> behind.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> How about maintaining a registry like npm https://www.npmjs.com or 
>>> https://github.com/jspm/registry where individuals host their modules on 
>>> github and users can discover them via registry?
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 10:35 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> " but raises several questions, all pertaining to the relationship of
>>>> this project with ASF, its ownership and control."
>>>> 
>>>> ...that is what I'm struggling to respond to as well.
>>>> 
>>>> It feels like the right path within the ASF is to establish child
>>>> projects of Apache NiFi.  I think we knew we needed to do this anyway
>>>> as we've mentioned before.  It just might be time now...
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Oleg Zhurakousky
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Tony, plenty of opinion but so are the questions/concerns.
>>>>> Managing it on GitHub is perfect, but raises several questions, all 
>>>>> pertaining to the relationship of this project with ASF, its ownership 
>>>>> and control.
>>>>> Perhaps some PMCs on the list can shed some light as to how it could be 
>>>>> done?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Oleg
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 13:08, Adam Estrada <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This has been suggested before. It's a great idea!!! I suggest creating 
>>>>>> a repo on github for NiFi-Processors or something like that. There are 
>>>>>> many more folks searching through GitHub than on the Apache wikis, IMO. 
>>>>>> This will inevitably help spread the word...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Tony Kurc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Not very strong opinions on this?
>>>>>>>> On Oct 30, 2015 10:53 AM, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Tony,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I completely agree we should do this.  A quick github search reveals
>>>>>>>> there are some nice utilities/processors folks have built for NiFi but
>>>>>>>> for which they're not necessarily going to submit them as PRs.  We
>>>>>>>> should link to these as much as possible but we should also help folks
>>>>>>>> understand these aren't 'apache' things and are not of the Apache NiFi
>>>>>>>> community directly but they are good for users and developers to know
>>>>>>>> about.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Perhaps a wiki page linking to these is good provided we have the
>>>>>>>> above sort of disclaimer and a healthy recognition such references
>>>>>>>> will become stale...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Tony Kurc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>>> I wanted to start a conversation about projects that are good for 
>>>>>>>>> people
>>>>>>>>> using or developing NiFi, but either can't or don't belong in the 
>>>>>>>>> source
>>>>>>>>> tree. This could be due to licensing issues (for example not 
>>>>>>>>> compatible
>>>>>>>> (or
>>>>>>>>> not yet determined if it is compatible (GPL [1])) with the Apache
>>>>>>>> License),
>>>>>>>>> or other thought provoking mild concerns like we're discussing on
>>>>>>>> NIFI-1074
>>>>>>>>> [2].
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'd like to propose either capturing these on the website or on the 
>>>>>>>>> wiki
>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>> some other approach I didn't think of. I was hoping to find a good
>>>>>>>>> archetype for this type of documentation in another apache project, 
>>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>>> didn't find anything I personally liked. If you have seen something 
>>>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>>>> like or don't, I'd be interested to hear.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
>>>>>>>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1074
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