Upload New Addon, Github is required

jackmaessen · March 2016

Do not know what this means but it is impossible to add a new addon because in red appears "Github is required" when i submit. Do not know how to handle with this info

vrijvlinder · March 2016

It means it must state the license you are releasing it under. I use this one 'License'=>"GNU GPL2",

$PluginInfo['NameofPlugin'] = array(
   'Name' => 'NameofPlugin',
   'Description' => 'description',
   'Version' => 'versionx',
   'SettingsUrl' => 'ifany',
   'SettingsPermission' => 'ifany', 
   'License'=>"GNU GPL2",
   'Author' => "you"
);

jackmaessen · March 2016

Hmm...this is my plugininfo and i got still the same issue:

// Define the plugin:
$PluginInfo['BootstrapThemeSwitchLayout'] = array(
   'Name' => 'BootstrapThemeSwitchLayout',
   'Description' => "Switch Layout of Bootstrap Theme for users",
   'Version' => '1.0',
   'Requires' => 'Bootstrap Theme', 
   'HasLocale' => FALSE,
   'License'=>"GNU GPL2",
   'Author' => "Jack Maessen" 
);

vrijvlinder · March 2016

You also need to make an account at github ? and link it to your account here...

https://github.com/vanilla

jackmaessen · March 2016

This is a little bit strange. With the other plugins i made, this was never an issue.
@Linc Maybe you can explain this to me and what should i do to upload a new addon? I need to create an account on Github? And link it somewhere in the addon?

hgtonight · March 2016

@jackmaessen said:
This is a little bit strange. With the other plugins i made, this was never an issue.
@Linc Maybe you can explain this to me and what should i do to upload a new addon? I need to create an account on Github? And link it somewhere in the addon?

This is a recent change to the community repo. GitHub shouldn't be required though, let me take a look at it.

EDIT: https://github.com/vanilla/community/pull/92

R_J · March 2016

@hgtonight said:
GitHub shouldn't be required though

I can understand why it shouldn't be required, since it would raise the hurdle to contribute plugins for occasional coders.

But have you - as an addon contributor - already spoke about that with @Linc and @Todd? Do you know about the Vanillas staff opinion on that topic? I think it should be considered to make GitHub (or BitBucket or any other OS repository hosting service) mandatory.
I'm convinced that in the long run, it would help improving the plugins quality.

Linc · March 2016

Yeah that was a coding mistake, sorry. I manually changed it in the database. I actually fixed it on master branch before I read the discussion and saw @hgtonight's fix, my bad.

Linc · March 2016

@R_J said:
I think it should be considered to make GitHub (or BitBucket or any other OS repository hosting service) mandatory.

We may, but I'd rather we have some better integration with GitHub first.

jackmaessen · March 2016

Addon uploaded successfully. thanks!
https://vanillaforums.org/addon/bootstrapthemeswitchlayout-plugin

rbrahmson · March 2016

I don't know how you uploaded it but I just tried to upload a new plugin and I got the same error message. The $PluginInfo has " 'License'=>"GNU GPL2"".

How do upload the plugin?

vrijvlinder · March 2016

Look for typos or errors in that…

rbrahmson · March 2016

Thanks @vrijvlinder. Nothing rings a bell... I was able to upload other plugins... This is has not happened to me before...

$PluginInfo['DiscussionReaders'] = array(
    'Name' => 'Plugin Info',
    'Description' => 'Plugin Description.',
    'Version' => '1.1.0',
    'RequiredApplications' => array('Vanilla' => '2.1.13'),  //My testing environment//
    'RequiredTheme' => FALSE,
    'MobileFriendly' => TRUE,
    'HasLocale' => TRUE,
    'SettingsUrl' => '/settings/DiscussionReaders',
    'SettingsPermission' => 'Garden.Settings.Manage',
    'RegisterPermissions' => array('Plugins.DiscussionReaders.View'),   
    'Author' => "Roger Brahmson",
    'License' => "GNU GPL2"
);

@Linc - how do I upload the plugin without setting up github?

Linc · March 2016

Fixed again. Sorry, I never pulled the new version of the code so utility/update kept resetting it. I actually deployed it this time.

rbrahmson · March 2016

@Linc, what have you done? Two mistakes in a row? Until now I considered you as one of the Titans, unearthly coders from the planet of Vanillium in the MVC Galaxy, descendant of the King of PHP and Queen CSS. Now I suspect that you are merely mortal, capable of errors. That is very encouraging because that is a level I can aspire to achieve.

In short, thanks!

Linc · March 2016

Oh man. The errors I've made. Epic stories for the bar.

Upload New Addon, Github is required

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