Gitlab hosting - Fwd: Transmitter - GUI for transmission-daemon and transmission-remote

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Since Sébastien brought this up.

Do we want to advertise hosting space if people are thinking of writing  GNOME applications as part of a greater desire to create a more solid GNOME/GTK+ developer community?

Advantages are that we would be more active in what our developers are writing and see problems with development.  There would also be a path for more maintainers in parts of the eco-system.  Also a place for new designers to find tasks to do.

The engagement/marketing team could start reaching out to developers to host their GTK+/GNOME project there.  The only issue would be to understand the costs of hosting as that could be problematic in the long term.  It could be a great problem to have provided we have stable funding sources.

Thoughts?

sri

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>
Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Transmitter - GUI for transmission-daemon and transmission-remote
To: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Patrick Griffis via desktop-devel-list wrote:
> and you already get the free infrastructure with the GNOME gitlab now

I think that gitlab.gnome.org alone is not sufficient to host a project,
for example is there a way to upload tarballs?

I think that new maintainers like Felipe need to ask for an account
here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner

As long as the project meets the prerequisites:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Prerequisites

There are many projects hosted on gnome.org which are not officially
part of GNOME. A bittorrent GTK+ client is definitely the kind of
project that makes sense to host on gnome.org.

But GNOME has two categories: core and apps. For example for the latest
release:
 core   -  https://download.gnome.org/core/3.27/3.27.3/NEWS
 apps   -  https://download.gnome.org/apps/3.27/3.27.3/NEWS

A bittorrent client could be part of apps, no? In that category there
are games, an IRC client, developer tools, even a hex editor and
gnome-multi-writer (some niche applications), so why not a bittorrent
client? The boundary seems arbitrary.

--
Sébastien
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