We will be submitting a new Jenkins plugin very shortly to integrate
Jenkins into one of our products. Before pushing the plugin source to
GitHub and starting the process we have a question on what should be
submitted to the jenkinsci for hosting
Our Jenkins plugin is comprised of three main Java components. These are
separate components because they are each separately useful and extensible.
The rest-client component is the starting point for potentially building a
complete standalone Java client that can be used to directly interact with
our products REST API. The reporting-tool can be used to submit automation
results to our product from anywhere without requiring customers to write
their own JUnit/xUnit parser to do so. As a result, they are effectively
dependencies that the actual Jenkins plugin uses to accomplish the desired
plugin integration.
The summary of the components is:
- A rest-client component
- Capable of connecting to, sending HTTP calls to, and interpreting
results from our product’s REST API.
- A reporting-tool component
- Responsible for taking in report files, parsing them, and
converting their data into objects that can be sent to the rest-client to
submit the build data using the rest-client to handle interacting with
our
products REST API.
- A test-management plugin component
- The actual “plugin” portion of the Jenkins plugin.
- Responsible for handling configuring the integration within Jenkins.
- Captures output from runs in Jenkins and uses the reporting-tool
component parse the data and then submit build results to our product.
We could submit just the source for the test-management plugin portion with
reference to the other two components on GitHub since they can be used
independently for other purposes.
Would this be acceptable?
Or would we have to submit all three components and also host the
rest-client and reporting-tool components separately on GitHub in case
someone wanted to use them for other purposes?
Thanks for any input!
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