Great idea Julio. I've updated the readme to point to the forked plugin.

Simon Mac Donald
http://simonmacdonald.com

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:09 PM julio cesar sanchez
<jcesarmob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The push plugin is already forked and got a few code updates, so if you
> could point to it in the phonegap one would be good. Will have a different
> name, so people will have to replace it.
>
> For the barcode, the aar used on android is 4 year old and it’s built from
> a zxing app that was abandoned 2 years ago and that was very hard to
> update, so I don’t think it makes sense to continue maintaining it as is.
> Nowadays there are better sdks, so would make more sense a completely new
> plugin, but doesn’t need to be on the Apache umbrella.
>
> El viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2020, Simon MacDonald <
> simon.macdon...@gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > Yeah, no worries folks. If you don't have the bandwidth to pull them
> > under the Apache umbrella I completely understand.
> >
> > As for licensing, we'd be able to figure it out. I work with 4 lawyers
> > on this stuff so they would be able to figure out a path that works.
> >
> > Simon Mac Donald
> > http://simonmacdonald.com
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 1:45 PM Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > At this point I would be a little reluctant to start supporting more
> > > plugins.
> > >
> > > Issues and unmerged PRs seem to keep piling up in multiple places. Here
> > are
> > > a couple of very sad examples:
> > >
> > > - https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/795
> > > - https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/242
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:34 AM Bryan Ellis <er...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > It could be integrated into Apache.
> > > >
> > > > What exactly would the process of integrating look like?
> > > >
> > > > I suspect it would start with a vote email?
> > > >
> > > > Since the existing plugin license is MIT, what happens here?  I don't
> > know
> > > > the rules or process on how we can change the license. I had read that
> > > > there were exceptions where we might be able to keep the original
> > license
> > > > while in Apache. I believe...
> > > >
> > > > Also, would the old repo be transferred, forked, hard copy?
> > > >
> > > > If we do this, we could start with "phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner”.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Aug 29, 2020, at 5:33, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks Simon
> > > > >
> > > > > We'll look at this. Erisu appears to already be actively working on
> > > > > havesource/cordova-plugin-push
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >  Jesse
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:22 PM Simon MacDonald <
> > > > simon.macdon...@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hi folks,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Long time no chat. As you are no doubt aware Adobe announced they
> > are
> > > > >> no longer in the PhoneGap business. To that end I archived the
> > > > >> following plugins that are still being used widely:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> phonegap-plugin-push - 7,659 weekly downloads
> > > > >> phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner - 11,058 weekly downloads
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I'm terribly disappointed that I have not been able to actively
> > > > >> maintain them for the past two years. To that end, if you think it
> > > > >> would be beneficial to Apache Cordova I can navigate the waters
> > > > >> internally to donate the plugins to Apache.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Note: I'm not trying to throw this code over the wall and make it
> > > > >> someone else's problem. Cordova has been a positive experience in my
> > > > >> life and if donating the code helps the project I'll make it happen.
> > > > >> If you don't feel like it would help we'll keep the repo's archived
> > > > >> and hope the community forks and maintains things.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Julio mentioned there is already a fork of the push plugin at
> > > > >> https://github.com/havesource/cordova-plugin-push.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Let me know what you think as I've been contacted by a few users
> > > > already.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Simon Mac Donald
> > > > >> http://simonmacdonald.com
> > > > >>
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