Re: Productivity suite (was Re: TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.11.3 DevelopmentRelease)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 10:59 +1000, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:

This use of our resources isn't a big deal to me, though it would
probably make things easier. For translation, an online system would
help, such as Mark Shuttleworth showed at GUADEC. However,
 
> I can see why the GNOME project would want all it's modules in it's own
> CVS. From the AbiWord perspective we would not like to give the ability to
> add developers to the AbiWord commit list as we see fit. We would also
> feel bad about removing developers from our commit list should we be asked
> to remove people upon being hosted at gnome.
> 
> In addition we host several other libraries in CVS on our system that may
> not be appropriate for gnome.

We are liberal about granting cvs access and about having all kinds of
modules, though I guess it might become a problem one day. Accounts are
also granted quite quickly these days. It's not like it used to be.

> We also gain a lot from having our bugzilla. We can be quite fine-grained
> about locating the modules associated with the bug and can change the
> granularity as needed.

I have found the bugzilla people very responsive to my requests for
changes.

> We would gain most from being associated with the fantastic
> gnome-translation team.
> 
> We are currently thinking through the various ways we could make each
> other's lives easier. For a start, uwog has made a script which makes all
> the abiword *.po files available from the server once a day.
> 
> We will certainly consider any way proposed by GNOME to ease the integration.

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