[Goodies-dev] git repository layout

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Sun May 17 11:23:40 CEST 2009


2009/5/17 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/17 Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
>> On 05/17/2009 01:59 AM, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>>>
>>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * mousepad (No active maintainer for some time)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> But Nick has an experimental branch of mousepad in git, don't he in this
>>> way maintaining mousepad, probably this is a question for him.
>>
>> I don't consider 14 months of no commits as "active" ^_~.  Even if it were
>> actively maintained, I don't think mousepad should be a core app.
>
> This makes the whole core thing the "minimum apps that should be
> needed to run a desktop", and that is a desktop like Windows 95 (:-P)
> but without notepad, without cmd, without any actual real app that has
> a window border, those are not core apps. Why not move core apps to
> goodies, forget about goodies and rename it to the "git" repository,
> like actually Benny once suggested, the two separate repos are not
> essential and it is fine to have a single one just like GNOME has.
>
> Mike

And I already forget about the last thing, you can, as already you
told, group the apps within cgit. This is a little different than the
actual two existing repos, there won't be any strict separation,
except only a grouping of different git repositories.

/me shakes his head



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