cli-plugin-repo

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Cloud Foundry CLI Plugin Repository (CLIPR)

This is a public repository for community created CF CLI plugins. To submit your plugin approval, please submit a pull request according to the guidelines below.

*If you are looking for information about the Plugin Repo Server, please go here

Submitting Plugins

1. You need to have git installed
2. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/cli-plugin-repo
3. Include your plugin information in repo-index.yml, here is an example of a new plugin entry

- name: new_plugin
  description: new_plugin to be made available for the CF community
  version: 1.0.0
  created: 2015-1-31
  updated: 2015-1-31
  company:
  authors:
  - name: Sample-Author
    homepage: http://github.com/sample-author
    contact: contact@sample-author.io
  homepage: http://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin
  binaries:
  - platform: osx 
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_darwin
    checksum: 2a087d5cddcfb057fbda91e611c33f46
  - platform: win64 
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_win64.exe
    checksum: b4550d6594a3358563b9dcb81e40fd66
  - platform: linux32
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_linux32
    checksum: f6540d6594a9684563b9lfa81e23id93

Please make sure the spacing and colons are correct in the entry. The following descibes each field's usage.

Field	Description
name	Name of your plugin, must not conflict with other existing plugins in the repo.
description	Describe your plugin in a line or two. This desscription will show up when your plugin is listed on the command line
version	Version number of your plugin, in [major].[minor].[build] form
created	Date of first submission of the plugin, in year-month-day form
updated	Date of last update of the plugin, in year-month-day form
company	Optional field detailing company or organization that created the plugin
authors	Fields to detail the authors of the plugin name: name of author homepage: Optional link to the homepage of the author contact: Optional ways to contact author, email, twitter, phone etc ...
homepage	Link to the homepage where the source code is hosted. Currently we only support open source plugins
binaries	This section has fields detailing the various binary versions of your plugin. To reach as large an audience as possible, we encourage contributors to cross-compile their plugins on as many platforms as possible. Go provides everything you need to cross-compile for different platforms platform: The os for this binary. Supports osx, linux32, linux64, win32, win64 url: Link to the binary file itself checksum: SHA-1 of the binary file for verification

1. After making the changes, fork the repository

2. Add your fork as a remote

   cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/cli-plugin-repo
   git remote add your_name https://github.com/your_name/cli-plugin-repo
   

3. Push the changes to your fork and submit a Pull Request

Running your own Plugin Repo Server

Included as part of this repository is the CLI Plugin Repo (CLIPR), a reference implementation of a repo server. For information on how to run CLIPR or how to write your own, please see the CLIPR documentation here.