On 9/15/06, Paul McMahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jacek, I see a couple of discussions going on in parallel:
Well, I should've seen them too, and I did in fact, but completely forgot about them. Perhaps, it's time to start doing after everything's said ;-)
geronimoplugincentral.org -- this is is a plugin user community site inspired by eclipseplugincentral.com that was announced to the dev list a few weeks ago. Where the thread left off was that there were suggestions to host the site at http://geronimo.apache.org/plugins instead of a private domain. I proposed a plan of action to make that happen in the thread "plugin community site" and am ready for feedback, assuming that +1's would equal support.
Do we need a full-blown web site (with Joomla behind)? Wouldn't a maven-like structure be enough? Just to see how it goes and bring the jpa plugin here (where its home is ;-))
geronimo plugins subproject -- IIUC this proposed subproject is for plugin developers and would be similar to the Geronimo plugins project at sourceforge but hosted at ASF and governed by Geronimo (like devtools). Several folks have volunteered to help and I would also like to take this opportunity to volunteer to help. There's a thread "maven repository hosting geronimo plugins" that proposes using the maven repository for hosting the plugins generated by ASF instead of creating a new infrastructure for hosting plugins. No feedback on that idea yet.
That's why I asked about it again. Everybody's busy so only the hottest features are able to survive, and the others need to be pushed a little ;-)
I see these two discussions as separate because they address two different communities -- plugin users vs. plugin developers. But I wonder if you view them as the same since you allude to an official plugins subproject hosted at http://geronimo.apache.org/plugins ?
I don't know if they need to have their own repo. Just thinking out loud and thinking we could separate them in a 'plugins' subdirectory of the Geronimo repo pretty well, too. If they get large they could become a subproject or a tlp project, whatever. I think we need to make a home for them before people will scratch their heads where they could be developed. What I'm leaning toward is a very unideal yet working solution with http://geronimo.apache.org/plugins and plugins subdirectory in place. If/when we decide something better we'll change it. Jacek -- Jacek Laskowski http://www.laskowski.net.pl
