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Question: Is this an acceptable public plugin? #198

Closed mbcoder closed 11 months ago

mbcoder commented 11 months ago

I wanted to find out if a submission for a new gradle plugin is acceptable.

I've been recommended to post the question here from this forum post.

I’m in the process of developing a gradle plugin to assist developers building JavaFX applications who use a mapping / GIS library I maintain.

I’ve been reading the publishing approval page and it says:

Plugins that are too specific to a particular use case or company will be rejected. Consider publishing it to a private Maven or Ivy repository if that is the case.

The plugin isn’t specific to a particular use case, but it will be specific to the library the company I work for publish. This git repository is an example application using my library.

I basically don’t want to go through the publishing process only to find it is rejected at the last hurdle.

Thanks

ov7a commented 11 months ago

Hey Mark! Thank you for your interest in Gradle!

If the library you referring to is public and can be used by the community, then I think it is ok to publish the complimentary plugin on the Plugin Portal.

mbcoder commented 11 months ago

@ov7a thanks for the prompt reply - you'll see a new plugin shortly.

mbcoder commented 11 months ago

@ov7a I just had one last question. Does the source code for the plugin need to be in a public github repository or is it acceptable for it to be in a private one?

Either is fine with me, I just want to follow the recommended practices.

The doc for writing plugins is really good by the way.

ov7a commented 11 months ago

Thanks for the feedback!

You can also refer to the Plugin Portal Documentation.

The plugin should be open-source and publicly available, and we rarely make exceptions. So please, use a public GitHub repository unless you have a very good reason against it.