Hi Sébastien, > 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. >
Indeed, but if there are a lot of inactive projects then paying to host them could become expensive. > 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. > Perhaps a wiki page linking from "development resources" could outline the process?[1] > 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. That makes sense. It seems like a good idea we explain the process of adding modules to git.gnome.org, publicise that a bit and see what comes of it then. I also reckon it's worth having a page which explains the process of becoming a module maintainer too and perhaps these sort of references would be good to link from the maintainers corner (which could then link to the landing page)?[2] Magdalen [1] https://wiki.gnome.org [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner
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