How to maintain non-core stuff?

Jean-François Wauthy pollux at xfce.org
Sat Feb 19 12:25:26 CET 2005


Le samedi 19 février 2005 à 11:58 +0100, Olivier Fourdan a écrit :
> Hehehe, do I need to say how much I agree ;)
> 
> As a side note, we could even take the opportunity to move to svn maybe,
> if possible?
> 
IIRC with svn, we can set permissions in every directory and every user
doesn't need a shell account on the server (with the http method). If
i'm correct it would allow translators to commit their updates by
themselves.

> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:53 +0100, 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.
> > 
> > This is only for the repository now, there's no need for the application 
> > to adhere to the Xfce release cycle, or any other commitment for the 
> > application maintainers.
> > 
> > So, can we agree on this? Opinions?
> > 
> > greets,
> > Benedikt
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