How to maintain non-core stuff?

[Erik Harrison]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:53:43 +0100, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> 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?

The only barrier for me is learning a versioning system ;-). As such,
I am indifferent to learning CVS, SVN, Darcs, Arch, whatever comes
down the pike. Whatever those you make heavy use of the repository
think is best.

But I'm certainly for it, if only for the geek cred of having code in
the Xfce repository.

> 
> greets,
> Benedikt
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