How to maintain non-core stuff?

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Feb 19 12:00:23 CET 2005


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Back on the non-core stuff topic started by Botsie some time ago, I did 
> some thinking about this last night, and I came to the conclusion that 
> it would be nice to maintain non-core stuff, that has a strong relation 
> to Xfce (like Xfmedia, Terminal, libexo, InstallIt, MousePad) in Xfce 
> CVS as well, as a separate toplevel module (maybe xfce-apps or some cool 
> name w/o a "xf" or "xfce" in it). This would offer several advantages; 
> most importantly, it would open the projects in question to a wider 
> range of people. For example, Brian would have direct access to libexo 
> for xfmedia, Olivier would no longer think that the installer generator 
> is closed source :-), and so on.

Maybe even have the different applications as toplevel modules, similar 
to Gnome CVS?

> greets,
> Benedikt

Benedikt



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