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I'm having issues contacting plugin authors, since the information is missing in the Plugin Portal (http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/) Shouldn't contact information be mandatory for those posting plugins, whether it's an e-mail link, link to a website (with verified contact info), or listserver information (if this is how their contact process is handled)? CASE STUDY: I'm having issues with downloading the XPath plugin (download link is broken) as well as issues running the Query XML plugin in NetBeans 6.8. See links below. The issue is that I can't contact the plugin owners to let them know of the problems. XPath Plugin (http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=2718) Query XML Plugin (http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=15704) Thanks.
Please evaluate.
Robert, if you want to contact plugin authors you can write to <plugin_owner>@netbeans.org e-mails. For example "bikestain" published XPath plugin so just write to bikestain@netbeans.org. I admit it's not as convenient as if the author's e-mail would be available in the built-in Plugins Manager as a clickable mailto: link. David, do you think it would be difficult to add <plugin_owner>@netbeans.org as author to the catalog if the module manifest does not include moduleauthor= attribute?
This is still valid and I agree that such a small change would be very useful. Can you please Honzo implement it?
This is now implemented and deployed on the plugin detail page. Email contact is only shown if user is logged in, so it's not that easy to harvest that by spam bots.
Excellent. Thanks Honzo!