On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 1:27 AM Nils Hoffmann <nils.hoffm...@web.de> wrote: > Will the contrib projects move into the main NetBeans git, or will they be > hosted in a separate repository?
My recommendation would be neither: discard the very notion of a contrib repository (deleting any references from `nbbuild/` and `apisupport/`; see `ModuleListParser.FOREST` for example); host any contributed modules each in their own repository (except in cases of obvious grouping such as `autoproject.*`); and use either the external Ant harness or (preferably) Maven to build against a particular NetBeans binary platform. The downside is that you lose any easy continuous integration (so contrib modules could be broken by incompatible changes in base modules), but I think this is a tolerable price to pay for the flexibility of independent permission management, release cycle, etc. Of course if there is interest in including a particular module currently in `contrib/` into the official IDE distribution then it would need to be in a subdirectory of `apache/netbeans`, but hosting in an independent repository at the outset does not preclude the possibility of merging it into the main repository later, assuming the IDE continues to be built from a monorepo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
