imagej / list-of-update-sites

The update sites ImageJ2 knows about automatically

List of Update Sites

In ImageJ2, anyone can open the Updater and install features from a list of available update sites which is populated by this repository.

Adding / Editing / Removing an Update Site

If you want to add, edit, or remove an update site from this list, please create a pull request.

1. Fork this repository
2. Modify sites.yml in your fork
3. Create a pull request containing your changes

Before adding a new site, please create a wiki page:

• If your site primarily ships plugins, then for each plugin, use: https://imagej.net/plugins/your-plugin-name-in-web-case
• If you want a dedicated page about your update site itself (perhaps linking to all the plugins it offers), use: https://imagej.net/update-sites/your-update-site-name-in-web-case

Need help? Don't worry, and post your question on the Image.sc Forum!

list-of-update-sites's Issues

Test PRs with CI

As #90 demonstrates, we are not actually running validation of sites.yml and other correctness tests on PRs, only on the main branch. We need to change that.

Mirror lists

Imagine there is a base list (e.g. sites.yml) and a directory called mirrors where people could add mirror servers. One mirror file would contain something like this:

• a list containing IDs of update sites linked to the URLs of their servers
• if they mirrored sites.imagej.net, it would contain the replacement for this path as well
• the location of the mirror server

The updater could then provide the user with a choice to pick from depending on their location.

Fix HTML markup

Since upgrading the imagej.net MediaWiki version, the appearance of this site is now weird. Looking at the HTML, I see a bunch of PHP cruft that was copy-pasted from the original "List of update sites" wiki page. I guess I was sloppy/incomplete in porting it over to GitHub Pages. This needs to be cleaned up and fixed!

Safeguard against markdown in site names

In 5bc911a we noticed that site names containing multiple underscores (_) will be parsed as italics when generating https://imagej.net/list-of-update-sites/, which then results in the underscores not being present in the URL and the site being invalid in an active IJ installation.

We should:

• Parse URLs as raw text, or markdown formatting should be automatically escaped
• Update the README.md with consistent site naming guidelines perhaps?

Add ID to update site list entry

Each update site entry should have an ID.
Motivation:

• the updater can use it to match entries even if the user changed the URL of the update site locally
• we can define mirror lists where IDs can be linked to different URLs