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Bug 102054

Summary:	Creating additional categories should not be allowed
Product:	updatecenters	Reporter:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Component:	Pluginportal	Assignee:	David Botterill <dbotterill>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Petr Jiricka 2007-04-21 06:32:05 UTC

Currently, when adding a new plugin, it seems to be possible to create a
completely new category:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/AddPageStep1.jsp

If the community does this, we will end up with a big mess in the category list.
I believe there should be one authority which decides about the categories, and
plugin authors should be required to pick from the existing ones.

Additional minor comments about this page:

- The label "Additional Categories" is confusing - additional to what? Shouldn't
this be just "Categories"?
- The URL of the page contains "AddPageStep1", however the page itself is
labeled "Step 2".

Comment 1 David Botterill 2007-04-23 15:09:43 UTC

Changing to enhancement. The currently functionality is working as specified and
as designed.

Comment 2 Jiri Kovalsky 2012-01-02 13:31:35 UTC

This has been resolved in Plugin Portal 2.0. Only administrators can add new categories now while users can still ask for their creation by submitting TASK against updatecenters/Pluginportal with "New plugin category proposal" summary and justification.