Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 15:50, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
> El dg 08 de 08 de 2010 a les 15:07 +0200, en/na Tomeu Vizoso va
> escriure:
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 14:55, Jose Aliste <jose aliste gmail com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I sent this to the gnome-web-list but there was instructed to send it
>> > here, so it can be more widely discussed (and maybe also in the next
>> > gnome foundation meeting)
>> >
>> > The idea is simple (but long and complex to implement). I would love
>> > to have a site addons.gnome.org, so we can have nice database with
>> > plugins and other addons for desktop apps. The idea would be to
>> > "borrow" ideas from the addons site of mozilla and it should support
>> > different types of add-ons (for instance, for gedit, we have plugins,
>> > language files, style-themes to name a few).
>> >
>> > So what do you think about this?
>>
>> Sugar Labs maintains its own fork of addons.mozilla.org for Sugar
>> activities: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
>
> Hi,
>
> Didn't know about it. Does it comes with a program library so
> applications can hook up with so that applications can integrate it with
> it?
>
>> Would be great if more people wanted to adapt AMO to non-Mozilla uses
>> and share the cost of upstreaming those modifications.
>>
>> Implementation wasn't really long nor complex, but you need to decide
>> if you really want to replace distributions as the means to distribute
>> your software.
>
> Would be really useful if you can gives us figures on servers,
> bandwidth, etc that are needed to run it so that we can make our
> forecasts.

Sorry, I did the initial porting but have been away from it since
then. I'm sure that the admins in sugar-devel lists sugarlabs org will
be happy to share the data about usage stats and resource consumption.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Cheers,
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > José
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