On 04.01.2016, at 11:29, Tomas Bjerre <tomas.bjerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am also developing plugins for Stash/Bitbucket Server and I must say that > their approach is much better. They have the Atlassian Marketplace where > plugins are published if they have a clear use case, the people at Atlassia > can successfully test that use case and it is documented properly. > > Having somilar plugins is a good thing. Then there will be competition! FWIW I'm starting to wonder about this. It's definitely useful in the case of accidental duplication, i.e. as a checklist item on the "So you want to write a plugin" page, as well as pointing plugin authors to the similar plugins once they request hosting -- some have then abandoned their efforts and moved to the existing plugin once someone pointed them there -- but refusing hosting for a plugin that already exists? This probably shouldn't happen. OTOH, there are a few arguments _for_ this, and I'd like to get your take on these: * Plugins get abandoned, but remain compatible with Jenkins for a long time. AFAIU, Atlassian plugins often need to be replaced with a major version update (at least I had acquaintances complain about how much effort some major version updates are because plugins aren't compatible), so there seems to be less chance of something that isn't actively maintained to linger forever. * We emphasize community contributions compared to individual ownership. That doesn't mean that the latter isn't possible, or even that it's discouraged, but we'd like to have someone be able to take over in case the original maintainer disappears or loses interest. * Users (and developers) complain about some clusters of plugins with similar or overlapping features. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/A801AED8-5848-45F3-BEF1-0B172B230B5A%40beckweb.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
