All:
In Che 3.13, we are introducing a plug-in packaging. A plug-in is a package of one or more extensions (that you author) along with the associated artifacts that your extensions may need to inject into Che, such as source code for a code template, a new Dockerfile to be used when generating a machine, or a set of icons that must be loaded by your extension.
Your code, combined with these other artifacts, make up the plug-in.
There are a number of capabilities we are introducing:
3. A new dashboard within che (
http://localhost:8080/dashboard) which lets you visually manage plug-ins that are available, staged, or installed. FYI, this dashboard will also soon ship with a set of dependency checks that will tell users if their underlying system has everything required to run Che properly.
4.
A drag-and-drop interface, which let's users drag a link from one web page into Che, letting Che perform discovery and download of the plugin from a nexus repository or file.
5.
A set of built-in archetypes, which will generate default client-side, server-side, and multi-extension plug-ins that are ready for packaging.
These capabilities are now working in the master branch for 3.13. We will probably do a 3.13.1 tag that contains these capabilities later this week. Many of the existing plug-ins that are built, but not pre-installed into
Che have been converted to use the new drag-and-drop capability.
We are seeking out additional testers - please any feedback is useful.
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