Here's the rough proposal: 1. Move all the plugins to Maven Central. Blockers: we don't know how to do that, if someone can advise, that will help.
2. Refactor the plugins.netbeans.org application so that (1) NBM files cannot be uploaded anymore and (2) instead of uploading, references need to be registered to the location of the NBM on Maven Central. Blockers: this is being investigated at the moment, timelines not known yet. This is doable because the plugins.netbeans.org application has been donated to Apache as part of the 3rd donation. 3. Deploy the plugins.netbeans.org application from the Apache NetBeans VM. There should be no problem with that since we'll not be distributing the NBMs from Apache (which would have been a problem since Apache distributes source code only) but only pages or references to Maven Central. 4. Enable the Plugin Manager inside Apache NetBeans to install NBM files directly from Maven Central, based on the references retrieved via the Update Center from the plugins.netbeans.org application running on the Apache NetBeans VM. 5. Continue using the plugins.netbeans.org URL, except that this will now be running at Apache and pointing to the plugins.netbeans.org application running on the Apache NetBeans VM. So, the above would mean that nothing is running on Oracle servers anymore, all NBMs that we care about are on Maven Central (and source code could mostly be on GitHub, except where plugin owners don't want their source code exposed, in which case they'd have it in their local proprietary backends), and we have the plugins.netbeans.org application refactored and simply showing Maven co-ordinated to the plugins on Maven Central. How does that sound? Gj On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 8:21 PM Antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > After the 11.0 release announcement, where we migrated most of > bits.netbeans.org, shall we tackle the plugins.netbeans.org website and > infrastructure for 12.0? Or is it too early? Also, what's missing in > netbeans.apache.org that still exists in netbeans.org and we want to keep? > > I can't remember when the infra @ Oracle for plugins.netbeans.org is > going to be shutdown, but the sooner we start thinking on hosting the > plugins, the better. This is something that is going to take us long, I > think. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Antonio > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
