Re: GNOME Releng web site

[Julian Missig <julian linuxpower org>]

Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Pat Eyler wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > >     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
> 

I would just like to say that I agree, it would be nice to have "GNOME"
and then have "GNOME Office" and "GNOME Games" and "Extra GNOME Applets"
and such.

Julian
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