That is cool! My only concern is about Google SSO, it is not convenient for the users in areas that google can not reach, China for example. So is it a MUST? or it's optional?
On 2019/10/10 5:46, Jiří Kovalský wrote: > Hello NetBeans people, > > if you have ever fine-tuned your NetBeans IDE with some > community-contributed plugin or you are a plugin developer yourself, > please read this e-mail carefully. > > The last reason for netbeans.org domain existence is the NetBeans > Plugin Portal - our repository of NetBeans extensions. Given the > original infrastructure is no longer maintained by Oracle and in order > to avoid potential legal issues with hosting 3rd party binaries > licensed under Apache incompatible licenses we have decided for a > complete rewrite of the Plugin Portal website. > > Today, we are happy to announce the result of our effort, the brand > new Plugin Portal version 3.0 [1] which is running on the same Apache > infrastructure which already hosts Synergy - the tests management tool > for NetCAT programs. > > [1] http://netbeans-vm.apache.org/pluginportal/ > > The 3 most substantial changes if compared with Plugin Portal 2.0 are: > > * Only plugins published in the Maven Central Repository can be > registered in the Plugin Portal 3.0. > * Only NBM or JAR file types are supported binary formats. > * Google SSO is used as authentication mechanism. > > The concept of community controlled publishing of plugins on the > Plugin Portal Update Center remains unchanged i.e. if two verifiers > approve a plugin and nobody disapproves it, the plugin gets > automatically added to the module catalog for appropriate NetBeans > version. > > Sounds good so far? Cool! The purpose of this message though is to > ask for cooperation. :) As you could have guessed we need to load the > new Plugin Portal with meaningful plugins so if you have developed a > NetBeans plugin, please publish it in the Maven Central and then share > it with others through the new Plugin Portal. And obviously sending us > any feedback on the registration process or Plugin Portal's new user > interface in general will be much appreciated! Bugs should be created > against "updatecenters - Pluginportal" component. > > Finally, once the final polishing is made, we will open source the > codebase so that everyone can participate in improving the website. > And if you are curious, the credit for creating the new Plugin Portal > goes to Jan Pirek (jpirek). Hats off to you, Jan! > > Thanks and long live the Plugin Portal 3.0! > > Best regards, > -Jirka > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
