npm does have a plan to improve their ecosystem + communities later this year. We will essentially get a portal for cordova on npmjs.
I also agree in turning plugins.cordova.io into a Gulp & Yeoman style search page. Probably won't be doing that until our current registry is shut down I imagine. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Kerri Shotts <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > I've used both Gulp & Yeoman's search, and prefer both to NPM (although > it's not difficult to be better than NPM's search). > > I also think close association with the brand and site are important. For > those users who don't know about Node & NPM yet, it's quickly apparent that > there's a large community creating plugins for Cordova, and for everyone > else, we have a URL that helps reinforce the Cordova name. NPM would still > be canonical, of course. > > (Now if NPM improved their search and did some nice work around > ecosystems, perhaps the above wouldn't be necessary. But I'm not going to > hold my breath...) > > > > > On May 27, 2015 at 8:19:35 AM, Tommy-Carlos Williams ([email protected]) > wrote: > > +1 > > > > > On 26 May 2015, at 21:44, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like to see plugin.cordova.io be a page easy to search and > filter > > cordova plugins just like gulp [1], grunt [2], yeoman [3] and bower [4] > > > > [1]: http://gulpjs.com/plugins > > [2]: http://gruntjs.com/plugins > > [3]: http://yeoman.io/generators > > [4]: http://bower.io/search > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:57 PM Michael Brooks <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >>> > >>> The mirroring may not help for search, but my worry is that a lot of > >> folks > >>> would still be on 4.3.0 and when cordova plugins registry becomes read > >>> only, they would not get bug fixes and other plugin updates. > >> > >> > >> My experience is this: > >> > >> - A developer who is willing to upgrade a platform is also willing to > >> upgrading a plugin. > >> - A developer who is *not* willing to upgrade a platform is also *not* > >> willing in upgrading a plugin. > >> > >> I think it's reasonable to offer a read-only state for the legacy plugin > >> registry. However, it would be helpful for the registry to explain the > >> minimum Cordova version required to support the npm registry. > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> The mirroring may not help for search, but my worry is that a lot of > >> folks > >>> would still be on 4.3.0 and when cordova plugins registry becomes read > >>> only, they would not get bug fixes and other plugin updates. > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Victor Sosa [mailto:[email protected]] > >>> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 8:59 AM > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: "Best" place to browse plugins > >>> > >>> I don't see a value on mirroring either. Instead I'd like to see a good > >>> querying mechanism in NPM, but for that we have to wait :/ > >>> > >>> 2015-05-01 10:55 GMT-05:00 Raymond Camden <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>>> I don't know - if npm is the place, then having a mirror just seems > >>>> like noise. I'd say close it down and put a nice text message up on > >>>> the site explaining where it is at NPM and how to search. (Link to npm > >>>> with the search params included.) > >>>> > >>>> Is there a benefit of having it mirrored? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> It would be even better (for backward compatibility reasons) if we > >>>>> could > >>>> simply publish on npm, but keep plugins.cordova.io as a > >>>> mirror/redirector, based on the Cordova registry mapper. > >>>>> > >>>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>>> From: Gorkem Ercan [mailto:[email protected]] > >>>>> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 8:31 AM > >>>>> To: [email protected] > >>>>> Subject: Re: "Best" place to browse plugins > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> What is the plan for plugins.cordova.io for after the CPR is closed? > >>>>> Without knowing if there is a good way to retrieve the list/details > >>>>> of > >>>> the cordova plugins from npm. > >>>>> I would love it if we could keep it as it is with the data from npm. > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Gorkem > >>>>> > >>>>>> On 29 Apr 2015, at 10:57, Raymond Camden wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> With plugins at npm now, what is the "best" place for users to > >>>>>> browse plugins? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Is it at npm, using the search filter? > >>>>>> https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/ecosystem:cordova > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Is it plugins.cordova.io? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If it is npm, will there be text added to plugins.cordova.io to > >>>>>> tell folks to start using the npm site? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> =================================================================== > >>>>>> === ===== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Email : [email protected] > >>>>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com > >>>>>> Twitter: raymondcamden > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>>> > >>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> ====================================================================== > >>>> ===== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM > >>>> > >>>> Email : [email protected] > >>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com > >>>> Twitter: raymondcamden > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera > >>> IBM Software Engineer > >>> Guadalajara, Jalisco > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
