Re: Promoting gnome.org for hosting apps/libraries

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote:
> > So, by promoting the gnome.org project hosting platform, you'll get more
> > _experienced_ developers that can more easily contribute to other GNOME
> > modules and become core GNOME developers.
>
> I reckon the main thing to be weary of would be figuring out a reliable way
> to predict the amount of abandoned projects GNOME could end up hosting. At
> the moment, we already have a few too many abandoned projects, but I think
> this problem could be reduced if we include clear instructions on how to
> take over maintainership of an abandoned module somewhere (obvious) on the
> wiki.

Only active projects are accepted. Some of them will become
unmaintained, that's a fact of life.

> Are you thinking of any specific projects? If so, it would be useful to
> know.

I just have GtkSpell in mind, a small library to add spell checking,
currently hosted on SourceForge. I already tried to convince the
maintainer some years ago to move to gnome.org, but failed. But now it's
a new maintainer.

But instead of contacting potential projects, I'm more thinking about
talking about it on planet gnome or having the information easily
accessible on the wiki.

> It's an interesting idea. I'd like to get a better sense of what lead you
> to arrive at it: Could you elaborate a bit on how moving LaTeXila
> benefitted GNOME (and vice versa)?

It benefited GNOME in the sense that I contribute and maintain other
GNOME modules now (GtkSourceView, gedit, …). And I was more inclined to
contribute since I was already on the gnome.org platform.

At the beginning when latexila was hosted on gnome.org, I didn't feel
that I was a member of the GNOME community. But by reading the planet
GNOME, by subscribing to some mailing lists, by being listed in the
weekly statistics written by Frédéric Péters, etc I felt more and more
part of GNOME. I then did a GSoC, etc.

Sébastien