[Goodies-dev] git repository layout

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 05/17/2009 02:21 AM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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.

Uh, did you even read the beginning of this thread?  I used to think the 
same thing, but after going through a lot of this migration, I'm 
convinced having things actually organised makes more sense.

It all depends on what you think "Xfce" is.  If you think it's a desktop 
environment, then "my way" sounds more logical.  If you think it's a 
"desktop environment plus some apps that we think are essential," then, 
sure, you might want to put terminal in, and some other things.  But... 
I don't happen to think so.

But those are two separate issues: 1) what's the definition of "Xfce 
core"? and 2) how do we organise our git repo?

	-b