Regarding the plugin developers to register their plugins easily. I will
propose the Homebrew model for registering plugins.
This means maintaining the list of plugins as files in a github
repository. This repository will be considered as the plugin registry. So
the plugin developers will just have to submit a PR to get their plugins
included or updated. We can still create the moderation process to verify
and validate the plugins before we approve the PR for addition or update of
the plugins.
The plugins can be uploaded to the maven registry just as mentioned in the
email thread and only the metadata, and registration, SHA hashes can be
placed in the plugin registry github repository.
I can provide more answers to the Homebrew process, as I have worked with
Homebrew casks and updates since quite a time.
with regards
Tushar
Tushar Joshi, Nagpur: http://www.tusharjoshi.com
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On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 2:28 AM arsi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would not be easier to allow plug-in developers to register their
> updates center "on the fly".
>
> We would do a git repository on github.
> There plug-in developer would add an xml file with a link, name, etc.,
> to his update center via PR.
> The approval process would remain preserved...
>
>
> And on the Settings tab, the "Show Available Update Centers" button
> would be added.
>
> This would download the current list of update centers from the git
> repository and allow to add it...
>
>
> Then it will be up to the developer preference to use
> raw.githubusercontent.com or any other server...
>
> Arsi
>
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> *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 05, 2019 8:31PM
> *To:* Dev <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: plugins.netbeans.org / netbeans.org
>
> > 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 <[email protected]> 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
> >>
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