Re: Hosting Paperwork on gnome.org

[jflesch gmail com]

Hosting Paperwork on gnome.org looks like a good first step.

If that's ok with everybody here, I'm going to start the discussion on Paperwork's side. I will ask whether 
all
Paperwork's contributors would agree to switch to Gnome.org (I doubt there will be any objection).


2 mai 2017 14:12 "Sébastien Wilmet" <swilmet gnome org> a écrit:

> On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 02:51:42PM +0200, Jerome Flesch wrote:
>
> > Assuming this is actually a good fit for Gnome, I'm not sure where to
> > start either. Any indications would be welcome.
>
> Paperwork is at least a good fit for hosting it on gnome.org. Some
> projects are hosted on gnome.org without being part of GNOME core. I
> think this would be a good first step.
>
> It's a bit old, but it's still mostly relevant, and this might convince
> you:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2010/06/04/why-gnome-org
>
> Once a project is hosted on gnome.org, if you ask the sysadmins it's
> possible to still use GitHub pull requests to handle contributions
> (instead of having patches on bugzilla, IMHO the only ugly thing about
> hosting a project on gnome.org).
>
> Once Paperwork is hosted on gnome.org, the release team could discuss
> whether to add it e.g. in the "Extra apps" category, or even in the
> "Core apps" if everyone agree that it would be nice that distros install
> it by default. See this recent blog post for the different categories
> and examples of apps in each category:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/09/21/gnome-3-22-core-apps
>
> But even if Papework is just hosted on gnome.org without being
> officially part of GNOME, this would bring your project more visibility
> I think. And a nice side-effect is that it'll be easier for you to
> contribute to other GNOME modules if you want, because you'll already
> have all the necessary accounts, permissions etc.
>
> To host a new project on gnome.org, all the information should be there:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner
>
> -----
>
> From a technical point of view, I don't know if it's already the case,
> but it would be nice to have a library with the features that Paperwork
> provides, so if one day Simple Scan or Documents want to use some
> features of Papework, it would be easily possible thanks to the library.
>
> Cheers,
> Sébastien