Re: Two new projects in the CVS and 5th Toe

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:21, Ole Laursen wrote:
> I have two projects for which I would like to continue development
> within the GNOME CVS:
> 
>   Hardware Monitor - http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/
> 
>   A better monitor applet for the panel than one in gnome-applets. It
>   supports combining a given viewer type with any monitored device,
>   and supports lm-sensors.

I haven't tried it, but I wouldn't see the point of using GNOME
resources for an alternative to part of GNOME unless we were thinking
about replacing that part of GNOME.

>   Monster Masher - http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/monster-masher/
> 
>   A mash'em-up action game for GNOME. There's really not a lot more to
>   add. Mash monsters and save the world of the gnomes!
> 
> Both projects are mature and stable and written in C++ with gtkmm,
> gconfmm, libglademm etc. I believe both are well-written and quite
> easy to maintain. Both applications are closely tied to GNOME.

This is just my own opinion, but I don't think GNOME's resources should
be used as a sourceforge. There is a random bunch of stuff in GNOME's
cvs, but I think anything new should be something that we think might be
part of the GNOME platform or desktop one day. It's hard to think about
that for a first version of something. 

> One of the primary reasons for adding the projects to CVS is that I
> hope to get help with translations from the GNOME translation
> teams.

Hopefully they can still work with you if you are not in gnome's cvs.
And I think you need to be in the GNOME desktop release to really get
their attention. Have they said that you need to be in GNOME's cvs?

> I also propose adding them to the 5th Toe, although I'm not quite sure
> if this is the appropriate place. The website is a bit confusing right
> now.

5th Toe should be your starting point, yes. Please do talk on
desktop-devel-list about 5th Toe if you think it needs improving.

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Murray Cumming
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