Hi Sébastien,> 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.Indeed, but if there are a lot of inactive projects then paying to host them could become expensive.> 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.Perhaps a wiki page linking from "development resources" could outline the process?[1]> 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.That makes sense. It seems like a good idea we explain the process of adding modules to git.gnome.org, publicise that a bit and see what comes of it then. I also reckon it's worth having a page which explains the process of becoming a module maintainer too and perhaps these sort of references would be good to link from the maintainers corner (which could then link to the landing page)?[2]Magdalen