On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: > > So, by promoting the gnome.org project hosting platform, you'll get more > > _experienced_ developers that can more easily contribute to other GNOME > > modules and become core GNOME developers. > > > > I reckon the main thing to be weary of would be figuring out a reliable way > to predict the amount of abandoned projects GNOME could end up hosting. At > the moment, we already have a few too many abandoned projects, but I think > this problem could be reduced if we include clear instructions on how to > take over maintainership of an abandoned module somewhere (obvious) on the > wiki.
Only active projects are accepted. Some of them will become unmaintained, that's a fact of life. > Are you thinking of any specific projects? If so, it would be useful to > know. I just have GtkSpell in mind, a small library to add spell checking, currently hosted on SourceForge. I already tried to convince the maintainer some years ago to move to gnome.org, but failed. But now it's a new maintainer. But instead of contacting potential projects, I'm more thinking about talking about it on planet gnome or having the information easily accessible on the wiki. > It's an interesting idea. I'd like to get a better sense of what lead you > to arrive at it: Could you elaborate a bit on how moving LaTeXila > benefitted GNOME (and vice versa)? It benefited GNOME in the sense that I contribute and maintain other GNOME modules now (GtkSourceView, gedit, …). And I was more inclined to contribute since I was already on the gnome.org platform. At the beginning when latexila was hosted on gnome.org, I didn't feel that I was a member of the GNOME community. But by reading the planet GNOME, by subscribing to some mailing lists, by being listed in the weekly statistics written by Frédéric Péters, etc I felt more and more part of GNOME. I then did a GSoC, etc. Sébastien _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
