Hi Stefan, That sounds great, looking forward to that page and to your plugins! Let us know if there's anything we can do to help.
Unfortunately, we don't have a concept of "experimental" or "stable" (let alone a system to distinguish between the two) yet, but I personally would love to have it. For now, new plugins are mostly in an informal "use with care" state for the first couple of releases. Bart On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM Stefan Keller <sfkel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bart > > Thanks for answering so quickly. I'm still new in the Apache Hop best > practices. > > I'll look at creating a stable page for the latest versions. > > My case is, that two students of mine and myself are developing one or > two new plugins (ready around december). > I'd call them experimental and will announce them here. > In QGIS they distinguish between experimental plugins and stable. > I would'nt consider them already as "optional" plugins to be published > as indicated here [1] - or would you? > > --Stefan > > [1] > https://hop.apache.org//dev-manual/latest/plugin-development.html#_steps_to_add_new_plugin > > Am Mi., 27. Aug. 2025 um 11:04 Uhr schrieb Bart Maertens < > bartm...@apache.org>: > > > > Hi Stefan, > > > > The plugin page was removed because it mostly contained information > about the external plugins that are not part of the "official" Apache Hop > project and releases. > > > > In hindsight, we could have added a disclaimer and kept (an updated > version of) that page. Feel free to create a feature request if you'd like > to see it restored. > > > > The hop-plugins repository you refer to was created for a number of > plugins that couldn't be imported into the main code base because of > various reasons (licensing issues, outdated dependencies, ICLA issues etc). > A lot of the plugins that were in that repository have already been > integrated in the main code base. > > > > Some of the remaining plugins there could be integrated in the main code > base, but that again will require quite a bit of work that doesn't add an > awful lot of immediate value. This isn't ideal, but the Apache Hop > developer team isn't huge and our bandwidth is limited. > > > > Even though the latest release for the plugins in that repository is > 2.12, they should work with recent Apache Hop 2.1x releases (including > 2.15.0). > > > > Regards, > > Bart > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM Stefan Keller <sfkel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> As of release 2.12.0, there are no longer any pages on "Plugins" in > >> the Hop User Manual. > >> The last release in which plugins are documented is 2.10.0 [1]. > >> The Hop plugins repository [2], on the other hand, refers to “Hop > >> Version 2.12.0.” > >> => Any explanations? > >> > >> Best > >> Stefan > >> > >> [1] https://hop.apache.org/manual/2.10.0/plugins/plugins.html > >> [2] https://github.com/project-hop/hop-plugins/ >
