🚀 Feature: Documentation on "Publish private"

[piatkiewicz]

🔖 Feature description

It would be very useful to have "Publish private" document describing proper way of publishing new or modified plugin. Currently the document is empty

• https://backstage.io/docs/plugins/publish-private/
• https://github.com/backstage/backstage/edit/master/docs/plugins/publish-private.md

🎤 Context

Not sure what should be changed in package.json and other steps

✌️ Possible Implementation

There could be an example in documentation showing adding a simple <p>hello</p> in @backstage/plugin-catalog-import somewhere, what other changes should be made to prepare it for private publish and how to publish it in some private registry GitHub/ADO Artifacts etc.

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Are you willing to submit PR?

No, but I'm happy to collaborate on a PR with someone else

[subash54]

@piatkiewicz I would like to contribute. Can you assign it to me?

[benjdlambert]

Hey 👋 thanks for raising this issue!

I think there's definitely room to expand this documentation section to maybe Publishing in general, and talking about publishing from your own repository to publish npm, publishing from your own repository to your own private registry and also publishing from the community plugins repository too.

@subash54 do you think that this makes sense?

[subash54]

@benjdlambert Yeah it will be helpful.
We need to add the following Documents right.

• Docs to Publish a plugin to npm
• Docs to Publish a plugin to a private registry
• Docs to Publish from community plugins to npm or private registry

Can you please verify?

[benjdlambert]

Last one should be Docs to Publish from Community Plugins repo to the @backstage-community scope or something I think

[djannot]

@subash54 do you already have a draft available ? I'd like to understand how to use the backend plugin I'm developing without submitting it.

[subash54]

Hey @benjdlambert and @djannot, I've submitted a PR for publishing the plugins to the private repository.