Where to store templates?

[Petr Mladek]

Michael Meeks píše v Pá 11. 05. 2012 v 21:22 +0100:
> 	Incidentally - one golden rule here is that - when you push something
> to git it is there *forever* - which means that every subsequent git
> clone anyone in the world will ever do will include your data :-)
> 
> 	What is the moral of that ?
> 
> 	a) don't check-in lots of big binary files unless they
> 	   are really very static / complete :-)
> 	b) come up with cunning programmatic ways to not do translation
> 	   of templates in the utterly dumb way it's done now ;-)
> 	c) try to share big things - eg. images across templates
> 	   without checking them in repeatedly (and bundling them
> 	   into distributions).

Probably a more safe solution might be to create a separate git
repository, like we have for dictionaries.

BTW: I really like the initiative. We really need more templates. I am
just curious. How is the commit related to
http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center ?
Are you going to select few high quality templates that should be
distributed with LO by default? How many such templates do you expect in
the long term?


> 	Personally, I'd prefer to have '.fodp' '.fodt' etc. files in there, so
> we can actually see what is happening as they are changed by people and
> version control becomes meaningful :-)

As Andras pointed out. I am not sure if these formats support templates.
We need to make sure that the files are opened as new (untitled). I
wonder how hard it would be to extend it. Fridrich?


Best Regards,
Petr