I there, That is actually a very good question. I was wondering to "resurrect" the Velocity and SFSBrowser plugins. On the code side, I am able to manage, but I still don't know how to proceed when it comes to commit the updated version as well as all the topics concerning IP from Oracle.
It would be a good idea to have some information about that topic, since the contrib project is a mine of cool stuff that deserves to be reactivated by the community. Cheers, JM On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:13 PM Eric Bresie <ebre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm no expert on this but... > > I tried some time back to take the nbpython contribution to integrate it > into the Apache Netbeans work... The general input I got at the time was > that the nbPython contribution was to be included in coming donations from > Oracle which required some pre-donation checks to ensure no Oracle IP was > present. Some of this may have involved removal of some code (which might > require further updates). > > I believe the contribution paperwork signed when becoming a committer more > or less gave ownership/rights to Oracle so it was dependent on that. > However I believe in some cases the original contributors could have some > say in it if the given work was abandoned or no longer supported. > > There was a call out to see which of these contributions the community > wanted to have donated. With some being identified as candidates, others > being viewed as deprecated/not worth maintaining (i.e., requiring too much > work to bring it in line), Beyond that, I'm not sure any further donation > work against these is happening anymore. > > I think part of the work when doing so might involve > (1) updating licenses where applicable. Some of the contributions may have > existing licenses which did allow usages but still had to be in compliance > with Oracle licensing where applicable. > (2) managing the independent repo with contributions, > (3) delivering releasable artifacts (nbm, plugin portal, maven repo > publications, etc.) > (4) update for Netbeans compatibility (i.e. new NB versions builds with > applicable API compatibility, etc.) > > I believe part of this contribution fork also included some "mavenizing" of > some of the contributions. > > Once again...not an expert but that is my understanding of it. > > Eric Bresie > ebre...@gmail.com > > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:29 PM Chris <christian.l...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > we have this wonderful repo here with all contribs since sun/oracle i > > think: https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib so what is the > > correct procedure, If I want to extend or fix a package let's say, like > > this: > > > > > https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib/tree/master/quickfilechooser > > > > Do I need to create a new plugin for this and this will by my "fork" of > > this or how should we do this? Should all of them treated as 3rd party > > plugins? > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Chris > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > >
