how do we deal with closed source plugins which only have the documentation on 
the jenkins wiki?
e.g.: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/CxSuite+Jenkins+Plugin

Domi



On 21 Apr 2015, at 12:10, Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> If you come across a plugin on the OSS update center that is in fact closed 
> source, please alert the community so that either the plugin can be removed 
> or the plugin author can be nagged to open source it.
> 
> And FTR CloudBees while has (quite a lot of) closed source plugins, but we 
> only host closed source ones on our own update center, in accordance with the 
> wishes of the Jenkins community.
> 
> Any plugin that CloudBees publishes on the community's update center is open 
> source... (part of our internal sign-off process before releasing a plugin to 
> the OSS update center is to ensure that all source code is open source. For 
> example the now defunct cloudbees-deployer-plugin which was to deploy 
> applications to our old RUN@cloud product. That plugin started off as open 
> source, then some changes required that it depend on a library we had that 
> was closed source, so we had to fork it in-house for 2 years or so, then 
> finally we got the full chain of dependencies open source again and re-open 
> sourced the plugin... of course 6 months after that the business decided to 
> shut down RUN@cloud... so we subsequently refactored the plugin to spin out 
> the (to our thinking - quite useful) deployment framework as separate from 
> the RUN@cloud specific deployment engine)
> 
> On 21 April 2015 at 10:49, Christopher Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, closed source plugins shouldn't be available in the update centre.
> 
> You can install your closed source plugins manually, or host your own update 
> centre, e.g. see this previous discussion:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/NArW8EeRgMs/discussion
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 21/04/15 11:09, Sergey Kadaner wrote:
> Hi,
> is there an option to post closed source plugin on
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins or at least make it
> available in automatic update notifications inside Jenkins?
> 
> I cannot find any option to do so.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sergey
> 
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