Hi!

As you might have noticed, Alan has announced two early-version
plugins for Taverna 2.1.2.

If you installed any of these you might also have noticed that we now
have three different plugin sites, which I'll briefly explain:

 * Official myGrid plugins
 * Third-party plugins
 * Prototype plugins

"Official myGrid plugin" are official extensions to Taverna from the
myGrid team, with source code and build/release under our control.
Before such plugins are official, they might be in alpha or beta
testing and available from "Prototype".


"Third-party" is where you come in. The intention is to there list any
third-party plugins that might generally be interesting to Taverna
users. This should remove the need for users to have to add your
plugin-site (although they might still do so).

If you as a developer want to have your plugin listed under
"Third-party", simply drop a line to [email protected] or this
mailing list, attaching the plugin file (like the one on [1]) - and
we'll test it and make it available under [2]. (There is no fancy
portal for this, we would just put the file in the magic folder..). We
can make a copy of the JARs/POMs from your Maven repository in case
your server is on a restricted connection.

I'm not quite sure what licensing we would have to require for your
plugin to be listed, as of currently all our plugins are LGPL 2.1 like
Taverna, so at least if your plugin is LGPL 2.1 it should be OK. For
other cases we might have to find a way to ask the user to review the
licence (similar to plugin installation in Eclipse). It is possible to
include a little description of your plugin that should mention the
license and a URL for more info, perhaps that would work for the other
cases?

So, feel free to let us know if you would like your plugin to be
listed! You might also be honoured with a link from the Taverna/myGrid
home pages.



[1] 
http://www.mygrid.org.uk/taverna/updates/2.1.2/plugins/prototype/biocatalogue-0.1.xml
[2] http://www.mygrid.org.uk/taverna/updates/2.1.2/plugins/3rdparty/
-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

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