[Goodies-dev] git repository layout

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 05/16/2009 01:48 PM, Ali Abdallah wrote:

> 1) The version number in the packages names, is going to stay and
> changes from a major release to another 4, 6, ... ?

I don't think we're planning on changing versioning at all.  The "core" 
components will follow the 4.x.y scheme with even x values as stable 
releases.

Goodie maintainers have their own release schedules and use their own 
versioning.

> 2) How do we decide which package goes to xfce and which one goes to the
> goodies?

Well, with the migration, I'd mostly leave the split as-is, with maybe a 
couple differences:

1.  All panel plugins will go under a new panel-plugins/ subdir.  I'll 
also move xfce4-trigger-launcher from xfce/ to panel-plugins/

2. The following will be moved to goodies:

* squeeze (Stephan has been asking me to move this for a while)
* xarchiver (need to talk to Giuseppe about this; we have yet to ship a 
version of xarchiver with Xfce, so I don't think this should be in core)
* mousepad (No active maintainer for some time)

3.  The following will be moved to archive:

* libxfce4mcs
* xfce-mcs-manager
* xfce-mcs-plugins
* xfce4-debs (last commit 4 years ago, does anyone even use these?)

4.  The following will be moved to a new bindings/ subdir:

* pyxfce
* xfce4-perl
* xfc

Long-term, I think it might be a good idea to move these bindings into 
the libraries/packages they support (libxfce4util, libxfcegui4, 
xfce4-panel) instead of having separate packages, and then 
configure-time switches could determine if they're compiled/installed or 
not.  libexo does this with its python bindings, and I think it's a good 
idea.  However, pyxfce is unmaintained these days and needs work, and 
xfce4-perl also needs some updates that I haven't gotten around to.  XFC 
is pretty much unmaintained these days and should remain a separate 
package anyway.

5.  The following are undecided, but I'd like to move them to goodies:

* xfcalendar (orage)
* xfce4-appfinder (maybe not; it's simple and useful; maybe we should 
even move this into xfce-utils and scrap the separate package)
* xfce4-mixer
* xfwm4-themes (I think Olivier talked about moving this as well)

6.  There's also some question of what to do with:

* gtk-xfce-engine-2 (I think Olivier talked about ditching this package 
since most people use the Clearlooks engine now?  I dunno, I think 
people still use it...)
* installit (Unmaintained, might want to pull out the current installer 
builder branch since trunk isn't finished)
* terminal (Some people hate terminal because of its issues with ARGB 
windows; I use it and don't care.  Either way, maybe it's not a core 
component.  It's not really actively maintained either.)
* xfprint (JF doesn't have time to work on this; with printing support 
in gtk now it's kinda unnecessary, though I believe current mousepad 
releases depend on it.  Maybe move to archive.)

	-brian