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When an nbm is uploaded to plugin portal, it is validated and only then a message displayed to indicate certain values missing (author, short description). It would be really useful if there was an option to validate the plugin meets plugin portal criteria (ie is it signed for NetBeans 6.0, are all required fields filled in) before uploading it or a constraint could be set making it fail until such issues are set. At the moment, the developer gets no such feedback until after they have uploaded it.
This would require creating some applet that would check plugin's readiness on client's side. Am I right Honzo?
My understanding, that this validation would be run before the actual upload, so then there has to be some client side code which would do that. This is in my opinion off the scope of the pluginportal. Plugin author who is interested in publishing, should make sure by himself, that his product meets criteria defined in wiki. honza
I agree. The requirements are well documented [1] which should be enough. However, anyone can contribute such an application/applet and attach it to the Wiki. [1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqPluginRequirements