Hi Sébastien, I just had a quick look and saw there are two pages relevant to this which could be updated.[1,2]
Magdalen [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleRequirements On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Magdalen Berns <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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