Xfce Goodies Project enhancements
Jasper Huijsmans <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.goodies.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi all, I'd like to start a discussion about the goodies project, to see if there are things that could be improved. Specifically I'd like to hear your opinion on the following items: - Move SVN to Xfce server(s). Auke is doing a great job managing our server and more and more subprojects are being hosted there as well (XFC, thunar, xfmedia, pyxfce,...). - Management and coordination. Currently there basically is none. I thought it might be good if a few goodies developers would become some sort of release team and make coordinated releases of all plugins, check every once in a while if maintainers are becoming inactive, approve the addition of new developers, etc. - Website. I thought for a project like this with many independent subprojects it might be better to use some sort of wiki. That would make it easier, I think, for maintainers to keep the information about their program up-to-date. Every plugin could have a small project page with: name, author(s), contact information, screenshot(s), link to download latest version, etc. Maybe it would be nice to have a small team of developers to keep the general content of the website up-to-date. - Communication. Could this be improved? For instance, I think it is not always clear to users that xfce-goodies is a vital part of Xfce to get the full Xfce Experience (TM). Also, I'm not sure it is clear enough for potential developers that the project is open to everyone. - Anything else about the project you would like to see different? Soon, I'll be switching SVN trunk to the new panel framework I have been developing. All plugins will have to be ported (should not be too hard to do), so this might also be a good opportunity to beta-test other changes in the project. It is your project, so tell me what you think. cheers, Jasper