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Summary: | Summary of Plugin Portal Testing | ||
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Product: | updatecenters | Reporter: | tomwheeler <tomwheeler> |
Component: | Pluginportal | Assignee: | Jan Pirek <jpirek> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 7.0.1 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
tomwheeler
2011-03-28 04:07:51 UTC
Tom, you were for some reason testing the old Plugin Portal 1.4 which is currently available if you click the Plugins tab on our homepage while the request was to test http://services.netbeans.org/pluginportal-2.0 instead. Anyway, your feedback is still valid in some cases. 1. Link to plugin sources - would it be sufficient to use Homepage for that purpose? Don't you want the field to be required, do you? 2. Honzo, can you please add the following tooltips? Plugin Name: Marketing name of your plugin. License Type: Name of plugin distribution license e.g. CDDL, GPLv3 etc. Supported NetBeans Versions: Versions of NetBeans which plugin works with. Home Page: Location of project or plugin sources e.g. http://java.net/projects/eidos-uml Images: Images in <accepted_formats_here> formats are supported. - please add this after "...in action." label. 3. Other comments are unfortunately not usable. There is no Price field, categorization has been improved and JavaScript injection is not allowed. Thanks for your feedback Tom! tooltips and image note implemented close the issue if that's all honza I am closing the issue as we are convinced that we addressed all valid points. Reopen Tom if you disagree. Thanks again for your feedback! I set out testing the 2.0 plugin portal; there must have been some link along the way that led me to the old portal at some point during testing. No, providing the source should certainly not be required -- commercial plugins would probably not offer it. Having a link to where the source code resides (which may be a different URL than the home page for many projects) is an OK workaround in the short term. However, I think it's worthwhile to have a way to upload the source code just as I would the NBM, so it is stored on a netbeans.org server. That way, someone could pick up maintenance of a plugin once even after the original site disappeared (assuming the license allow it). As per my example, it's now very hard to find Sandip Chitale's LineTools plugin or Nathan Fiedler's System Filesystem Viewer. Oh, you really mean to upload the sources! Honzo, this would not be hard to implement, would it? Technically not difficult. .zip, .gz archives? Yes, I think these two formats would be sufficient. |