Re: How about creating addons.gnome.org

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu tomeuvizoso net>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 16:01, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
> El dt 10 de 08 de 2010 a les 09:43 -0400, en/na Jose Aliste va escriure:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> >> So to stress things, the site should clearly state that the plugins
>> >> are property of their developers and that problems should go to them
>> >> (as the addons.mozilla.org does)  Of course we could also showcase
>> >> GNOME-"blessed" plugins with some logo of Gnome. For me "blessed"w
>> >> would mean are to  be defined as maintained in a repository in the
>> >> gnome git server.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be better to restrict us to high quality plugins in the first
>> > place? So, basically, getting accepted on addons.gnome.org would mean to
>> > deliver quality code, translation and documentation.
>> >
>> > We could have some kind of "staging" area of course but I would want this
>> > area to be disabled by default, with a clear "You have been warned"-sign
>> > attached to it.
>> I totally agree with you. However, who would be responsible to review
>> a plugin outside the staging area?
>
> Let's first focus on what we need to create a first prototype version of
> it, link somehow with libpeas [1] and then we can start adding staging
> areas and flowers and rainbows.

Actually, AMO already has a staging area as described by Jose, they
call it sandbox. You can read more about it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies

Regards,

Tomeu

> I mean, obviously that there are lot of things to work out, but it would
> get more interest from developers and users if there's something to play
> with.
>
> For example we can start allowing only themes (for gnome-appearance
> capplet and gedit color styles) and backgrounds (again for
> gnome-appearance capplet).
>
> Then after this works successfully we can add snippets for Anjuta,
> plugins for EOG, GNOME Shell and gedit and so on.
>
> My 5 cents,
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/libpeas
>
>> >
>> > Remember that we aren't a company that needs to promote its appstore by
>> > having lots of stuff there and we can concentrate on quality. See [1]
>> > related to that.
>> This was never in my mind ;) I am not an apple fan :). I am a Gnome fan.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> José
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Johannes
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=896
>> >
>> >
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