How to maintain non-core stuff?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> Yeah, I think I'd be up for putting Xfmedia in Xfce CVS.  I like having 
> it at home, but there's really no good reason to keep it there, and 
> several good reasons to move it elsewhere.  Subversion would be even 
> better.  There are tools for importing CVS history, right?

cvs2svn

>    -b

Benedikt