next level of freedesktop.org

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:10, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Concretely, I'm proposing the following steps:
> >
> > 1. We welcome desktop-related development projects on an
> >    indiscriminate basis; if it's desktop-related and open source, you
> >    can use freedesktop.org hosting.
>
> "On an indiscriminate basis" might be a bit vague. I'd second the motion
> that it'd be restricted to projects either:
>
> a) Useful for cross desktop project collaboration (desktop-file-utils,
> pkg-config)
> b) Shared infrastructure between various Linux desktop projects (Xr is
> one obvious example)
>
> I guess there's some overlap there. For random projects there is always
> SF, Savannah and I suspect given the recent problems the 'forge has been
> having, people will increasingly move back to hosting their own things,
> I know I have.

I agree with that. I think that the focus should be on the underlying/shared 
infrastructure for desktop projects and dekstop applications, but not those 
projects applications themselves.

Cheers,
Waldo
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