OK, I spent some (rather more than expected) time on this today putting together a proposal.
I pushed a wip/mcatanzaro/core-apps branch of jhbuild. Please take a look. If you don't like it then I am going to be embarrassed at how long I spent alphabetizing the modules. :) On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 18:49 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > * Help the GNOME project focus, and help contributors to understand > the layout of the project, by providing a common organisation which > reflects our priorities and direction. (This implies that > contributors > will be exposed to the moduleset definitions, through the > organisation > of git.gnome.org, Bugzilla, etc. This goal won't be reached if no one > sees the modulesets. To help us focus, I also propose a special metamodule in core, GNOME Incubator. Incubator is for apps that we have decided belong in core, but are just not good enough to have installed by default -- yet. We should encourage the community to focus on developing the apps in incubator as priority projects, direct some organizational/design resources towards making sure they have inviting wiki pages, easily- accessible roadmaps, clear instructions on how to build and get started, visible contact people for newcomers, etc. I'd also suggest directing GSoC students to consider these applications specially for project proposals. I plan to blog about this to churn up some interest. I propose: * anjuta: apps -> world * empathy: core -> apps * gedit: apps -> core (conditional on desktop file debranding) * gnome-boxes: apps -> core * gnome-clocks: apps -> core * gnome-color-manager: apps -> core * gnome-dictionary: apps -> core * gnome-documents: apps -> core * gnome-maps: apps -> core * gnome-weather: apps -> core And for Incubator: * bijiben: apps -> core (incubator) * epiphany: core -> core (incubator) * gnome-chat: world -> core (incubator) * gnome-music: apps -> core (incubator) * gnome-news: world -> core (incubator) * gnome-photos: apps -> core (incubator) I didn't want to add too many, so as not to dilute our focus. This is just an initial proposal; we could decide to have fewer apps to help focus, e.g. by cutting out gnome-chat and gnome-news, which are still quite immature, or by not demoting Epiphany, or by saying bijiben cannot enter core until it drops the WebKit1 dependency. Note that I'm also trying to be realistic about what distros are shipping, and the quality of the app relative to its competition. GNOME Music has to be better than GNOME Weather because GNOME Weather does not have to compete with Rhythmbox, for instance. Same for Epiphany vs. Firefox/Chrome. I omit Calendar from incubator because, trying it out today, it feels surprisingly ready for prime time. That's what I thought about Music and Photos too, though, so correct me if this is nuts.... Michael _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
