What about to Donate the SourceCode to Apache NetBeans

[gilbertoca]

Dear @madflow and @stengerh ,

This plugin is really popular among NetBeans users and I would like to ask you the possibility of the source code donation to Apache NetBeans, so it can be an integral part of all Netbeans ecosystem?
WTA?

ref: apache/netbeans#1428

[madflow]

@gilbertoca @jlahoda I personally would embrace the idea that Markdown would become a 1st class citizen in Netbeans. Most of the source code has been written by @stengerh and @junichi11 . The MIT License would allow a transition without asking every contributor I would assume. I would still like to here some opinions on this (but, everyone could just adopt/fork it without asking permissions).

A blocker is this issue in my opinion: #121

Pegdown was the perfect fit back in the days - now the plugin will need a Markdown parser update to perform at its best.

[jlahoda]

@matthiasblaesing, would you have any insights on what could be a way to get this plugin to be part of NetBeans itself?

Regarding the parser, I'll try to find some to look at the parsers, but cannot make promises.

[Chris2011]

Please also have a look at this ticket #121. It's about using other parsers than the deprecated pegdown.

[junichi11]

@madflow I respect your opinion because this is your repo ;)

[matthiasblaesing]

This is my understanding of the Apache Legal FAQ: We can include MIT licensed code into the netbeans code base. When we do this, we still have to follow the requirements of the license. We would therefor be required to include the MIT copyright information. We have a similar case in the smooth scrolling code in the "Look & Feel Customization Library":

https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/master/platform/o.n.swing.plaf/licenseinfo.xml#L47..L56

here the ALv2 is worse than the MIT license. For the MIT license, I would reference the license and be done with it, the ALv2 requires us to clutter the NOTICE file with this.

My take on this:

• if it is possible to gather all people that contributed to the project and let them transfer their work/copyright to a single author, who then donates it to the ASF would be the best (yeah, probably won't happen)
• alternative 1: Get all contributors to agree on a relicensing to ALv2 without a NOTICE file (have a look at our NOTICE file or the lucene one and you know, that they are a very bad idea)
• alternative 2: The code gets contributed as is and the license file of netbeans gets one more entry

[madflow]

I am really not familiar how to "contribute/donate" source code to bigger project like Netbeans. I have never heard of a NOTICE file before. I am open to "asking" all 8 Contributors if they would object relicensing if this would make things easier. I would favor alternative 2.

[stengerh]

Sorry for the late response. I was swamped with work for the last months and must have missed the notification.

I would agree on a relicensing. Alternative 2 would be fine for me as well if someone else objects to a relicensing.

[Chris2011]

So do we still need to donate the code? Afaik, @jlahoda already started it: apache/netbeans#1428 also he started to add flexmark. So I think the code for donation is incompatible?

[jlahoda]

My patch was for just highlighting - the donation would give us more fully featured support. I think the more fully featured support would be much better - and my PR could just be closed as not needed anymore.

[Chris2011]

Ok, thx for letting me know. And to add this here, donating the code will still use the old and deprecated pegdown lib. Just to let you know.

[ve3]

This plugin is not working anymore in Netbeans 12.1.

[thomas-mc-work]

On my machine it's still working with NetBeans 12.1. Did you try a fresh install, @ve3 ?

[ve3]

On my machine it's still working with NetBeans 12.1. Did you try a fresh install, @ve3 ?

Yes, I tried that but when it was installed and restart the plugin did not appear in the list and not functional.

I'm using Windows 10 x64 Netbeans 12.1.

[agarcialeon]

I can confirm that 2.3.2 version works on NetBeans 12.3 (Preview works, navigator and syntax highlighting).
Anyway, it's anyone working on an update to flexmark? Is there any ETA?

Because my company has switched to Netbeans as a publisher, I have made a list of plugins, themes and other resources so that other developers can more easily find the links after seeing that the plugins portal is down.

[Chris2011]

There was another Markdown plugin: https://github.com/jkost/MarkdownViewerForNetBeans. @jkost is on it, but has some trouble. What is your list, that you mentioned?