Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

[Jose Aliste <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org> wrote:
> 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

Tomeu, is the source of addons.mozilla.org or activities.sugarlabs.org
publicly available under an open source license? If so, could you
point me out to it?



Greetings,

José