I am looking forward to seeing a strategy in place, before any *new* code will be added to the code base.
Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi jacopo, > > I see, all good points on tbe compliance side of things with ASF > guidelines. I was actually replying to a suggestion by Jacques to create a > new maven repository in a VM or something like that which sounded like too > much work to me. So your suggestion of just using an existing ASF > infrastructure seems like a good middle solution. > > Cheers, > > Taher Alkhateeb > > On Nov 30, 2016 3:44 PM, "Jacopo Cappellato" < > jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Taher Alkhateeb < > slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > Instead of firing up an entire maven repository we can just create source > > branches for the plugins, and publish to JCenter with an OFBiz account. > > This is a simpler faster way moving forward. [...] > > > Hi Taher, > > I am not sure I understand what you mean with "firing up a maven repo" but > my proposal was not that: instead I was proposing to explore the > possibility to use the existing official repo offered by the ASF to > distribute Maven plugins. > Sharan and Jacques had a quick chat today with some Infra guys to explore > the options available (I will let them add more info if I am missing > something). > > In my opinion the following points should be considered: > * each plugin created by the OFBiz project is actually a "product" and > should be treated as a product > * as an ASF project/community we can only distribute products that we > create and publish/release with a formal vote; the OFBiz project cannot > distribute code that is not formally approved/released > * the primary distribution channel for the products published by the OFBiz > project must be owned/managed by the ASF Infra; it is ok to distribute the > OFBiz project's products using different alternative channels (like the > mirrors release network leveraged by all the ASF projects) provided that > the primary channel is owned by the ASF. > > All the above doesn't apply to third party plugins: for them there are no > restrictions as they are not distributed by the OFBiz project. Users can > download them, possibly using the OFBiz plugin API, and third party > companies can create them and upload to public/private repositories as they > like. > As an ASF project we will not endorse, promote, approve, distribute or > release third-party plugins; but as a project we could facilitate and > encourage third party companies to create/publish/promote their plugins by > improving the tools (e.g. the plugin API) that enable end users to install > them in their OFBiz instance. > > Jacopo >
