Re: GNOME files disabled

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote:
> > Luis Villa wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > > > What was gnomefiles? It sounds like a list of files found in GNOME but I
> > > > don't want to assume. :)
> > >
> > > closer to addons.mozilla.org- information (including updates, news,
> > > etc.) about applications available for GNOME. One of those multiplier
> > > things that creates a lot of value by giving everyone who does a GNOME
> > > program a place to shout from.
> >
> > But also had a very low barrier to entry, which meant that it became
> > about as useful as Freshmeat at one stage.
>
> I'd say that ideally a replacement would have functionality similar to
> a.m.o- ratings (including download counts and perhaps some sort of
> 'maturity' score based on the duration and number of updates) and
> probably some editorial component for the front page.


a.m.o is powered by Remora (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora). I
had a look at the code at some point, and it seemed to be hard coded
for Firefox and Thunderbird. However, there has been some efforts from
SugarLabs to modify the code to be more suitable for a generic
software map[1] - I'm not sure what the status of the project is right
now.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


[1] http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/001019.html

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