Re: GNOME Releng web site

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Pat Eyler wrote:

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> >     gnomoku - rough consensus against - we don't want to add too many
> > games to the GNOME distribution 
> 
> perhaps there should be a minimal set of games in GNOME 1.4, and an
> optional 'games pack', somewhat along the lines of GNOME Office.  A
> unified release of this paock could be done every quarter or semester.
> Another option would be just to let distributors handle games (see my
> comment on gabber below).

This is an interesting idea.  Right now, we pretty much have:
 1) Official GNOME packages
 2) A few "blessed" packages which Helix ships but aren't "official"
 3) Random applications

I like the idea of gathering applications together which fill in the
second tier (2) above.  They could be things like gnome-games-extra,
gnome-applets-extra, etc.  The advantage is that users who want to get a
package of games, applets, or whatever which have passed a certain level
of stability and cool-ness can do so easily.  This would also encourage
developers of independent GNOME apps to work a bit harder to get their
apps into the "extra" pages, get them documented and translated, etc.

It also gives us some extra flexibility with what is the official, main
GNOME distribution and what are add-ons.

Dan