Hi! thanks for both inputs :-) Seems that Apache Extras is what I was looking for
br, juan pablo On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez > <juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to ask a quick question to know how 3rd party extensions are > > handled in other Apache projects. (Historically,) In JSPWiki, all the > > custom plugins, filters, templates, etc, made by non committers has been > > uploaded to a wiki page at www.jspwiki.org. Each author uploaded his/her > > extension to his/her page, taking care of the content of that page, > linking > > it to relevant pages, etc. > > > > Due to some legal reasons [#1], www.jspwiki.org is/has been in read-only > > mode for a while and the need of hosting somewhere new extensions is > > beginning to arise. We're considering opneing jira tickets under a > > "extensions" component, to be able to track all these extensions, but > most > > probably it makes much more sense to give people commit access, per > > request, to a specific svn repo folder (something similar to the commit > > policy followed by Jenkins). > > > > We were wondering if this approach could be feasible under Apache's svn > or > > if it makes more sense to host these extensions outside Apache infra (a > > google code or github account). > > > > What have other projects done on this situation? > > > > > > thanks & br, > > juan pablo > > > > > > [#1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-739 > > Assuming the new templates are "Apache Licensed", you might have few > options : > - Contributors can submit/update artifacts via JIRA and a committer > would update to the proper location > - After submitting a CLA, a contributor is granted write access to > 3rd party artifact area and can submit/update his Apache Licensed > artifacts > - Based on the type of contribution, evaluate the contributor and > possible make him a committer, then problem solved... > > For non Apache Licensed artifacts, you might consider Apache Extras, > but you probably wil only have a link saying something like "For other > non Apache Licensed artifacts, see... " and point to apache extras. > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
