I fully agree with Glen on this. Nothing more to add kind regards, Harry
On 13 March 2013 04:36, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/12/2013 07:36 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote: > >> Hi Jürgen (et all), >> >> apologies on not creating the JIRA component yet, had a real busy week.. >> >> I've just asked on [email protected] about his and they've kindly pointed me >> to >> http://code.google.com/a/**apache-extras.org/hosting/<http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/>which >> seems to fit a >> lot better than an undetermined number of JIRAs (we get svn, issue >> tracker, >> downloads section, etc.). >> >> So, I see two possibilities: >> 1.- we can create one jspwiki-[contrib|extras|**whatever] project there, >> and >> grant commit access to whoever asks. We add a link on the website. This >> way >> contributions will be easier to track, look at, and promote >> > > Hi Juan, actually, whomever has a plugin can create their own Google Code > or GitHub site for it, and we can just add a link to it on our Apache > webpage (AFAICT, we just need to create a "plugins" page which links to the > various external plugin sites.) At a later date, once we get the website > issues nailed down, we can look at incorporating some/all of them in the > Apache JSPWiki base code, once the donator supplies us a JIRA patch with > Apache-licensed documentation. > > I don't believe we want to be managing any more websites (with their > associated SVN/issue tracker/downloads, etc.) than we absolutely have to. > If we're in the business of granting write access it follows we end up > being sort of responsible for whatever somebody places there (copywrited > code, for example), as well as the general risks of person A messing up > person B's code. > > > > >> 2.- whoever wants to develop his/her extension(s) opens a project in >> there, >> labelling it at least with "jspwiki". We add a link to the tag on the >> website. This option is easier to set up, as anyone anytime can open a new >> project, not depending on anyone to start his/her project, but linking to >> a >> tag will decrease its visibility (i.e.: it's difficult to see at a glance >> what are the different projects at >> http://code.google.com/a/**apache-extras.org/hosting/** >> search?q=label%3aMaven<http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/search?q=label%3aMaven> >> ) >> >> > I like this idea much more, let the donator create his own Google > Code/GitHub site (they don't even need to put jspwiki in the name), and > just inform us about it for us to add it to the the Apache JSPWiki > website's new plugins page. (We can provide a link to the plugin and a > 1-or-2 sentence description of it.) I don't see how its visibility can be > decreased that way, because the page to look at to find *all* plugins will > be the Apache JSPWiki plugins page. Those plugins might link to 20 > different URLs, it won't matter, they will still all be listed together on > that page. Besides, some like GitHub, some like Google Code, some like > ???.... > > Even if you went with (1), you'll still potentially going to have several > hosting their plugins on different sites because they don't want the others > to be altering their source code while they're developing it. So the > plugins page on Apache.org will still be having the full list of all > external plugins we're aware of, because only that page will be pointing to > all the places where the plugins are hosted. > > Regards, > Glen > > > > I'm more inclined to option #1 but, @all, WDYT? >> >> >> br, >> juan pablo >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I'd prefer a Jira per plugin. I'll create a "Contributions" component on >>> Jira this afternoon, so we can reach all contributed >>> plugins/filters/templates/**whatever from one URL >>> >>> Also, another possibility could be set up a jspwiki-extras account on >>> github/google code/etc., granting commit access per request (something >>> similar to what is done on Jenkins). @all: WDYT? >>> >>> >>> br, >>> juan pablo >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jürgen Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> jspwiki.org is r/o now, so, how does one contribute plugins nowadays? >>>> Create a jira for each plugin and add the source? Or have a meta Jira >>>> that contains all contributed plugins? >>>> >>>> Thx, Juergen >>>> >>>> >>> >
