Re: [Gimp-developer] Gitlab as a replacement for registry.gimp.org

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

Off the top of my head, three points of view on such a thing:

Admin;
- good spam prevention (IP banning, lock on keywords, approval of first 
post...)
- malware prevention. This could be a trust system (but don't forget 
that even trustable persons could have their account hijacked). 
Reviewing SCM/PY is easy. Reviewing C is more complex, because we have 
to check that the binary is indeed matching the source we review, or we 
have to rebuild it (for all platforms...).
- easy user management

Author:
- decent registration procedure
- ease of publication (that goes a bit against security/spam, so a 
balance should be found)
- statistics (I'm a sucker for download stats, especially when they show 
me that my more popular scripts aren't the ones I think; so far nothing 
beats SourceForge...)
- ability to document things easily: formatting with markdown or BBCode, 
including support for images. Ability to upload text and images from my 
PC (v.s. editing in a web page) is a plus
- communications with users: forum, etc. Mail notification necessary
- ability to share/transmit ownership
- I don't think this system should be a place to maintain/share the 
source code. We could however enforce a FOSS/CC discipline and require 
the source files to be provided (for some assets, this could mean the 
original XCF/SVG file...)
- Human-readable, permanent URL to homepage so that it can be posted on 
other sites

User:
- straightforward, no-questions-asked downloads
- easy registration for forums
- semi-anonymous use of forums (guest mode without registration, but 
with some more hurdles such as captchas)
- search capabilities