I agree with Norm: +1 on #2. The npmjs.com search works fairly well - it wouldn’t be worth trying to make something better.
George Henne VoltBuilder Support > On Oct 21, 2022, at 10:23 AM, Norman Breau <nor...@nbsolutions.ca> wrote: > > Hi Team, > > I want to reach a final verdict on how deal with the broken search page at > https://cordova.apache.org/plugins/ > > We have an active issue being tracked at > https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/issues/1128 but in summary, > the rest service used to power the search has gone offline and doesn't appear > to be coming back. > > Throughout the thread there has been several ideals about how to move forward > including: > > 1. Using another third-party API service: https://api-docs.npms.io/ > 2. Having a static page listing the officially supported Apache plugins, with > a link to https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=ecosystem%3Acordova > 3. Removing the page entirely, maybe with a blog post explaining how to find > third-party plugins. > > Additionally there are few ideas floated around with using the NPM Couch API > directly, but there may be terms of use issues involved without having > self-managed server hosting a mirror. > > Personally, I vote -1 for #1 and #3. npms.io doesn't have a clear terms of > use, as far as I can find. I'm not sure if the API matches the old npmsearch > that we did use, and we may just run into the same issue > down the road. For #3, community members have already explicitly expressed > dissent with removing the page entirely. > > I vote +1 for #2, having the static page with a mention + link to NPM for > third-party plugins. I think this is most likely the best path forward. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org >
