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Re: Community-contributed modules

by Chad Kieffer-3 :: Rate this Message:

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Nothing like sending out a less than half-baked email to the -devel  
list.

Sorry folks. I'll send again, but hopefully after I've finished  
thinking it through.

-Chad

On Jun 19, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Chad Kieffer <chad@...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thought I'd split out a thread devoted to community contributed  
> modules.
>
> Contribution policy and process
>
>
>
> Module directory
>
>
>
> Alec Myers wrote:
>> Are you going to be able to give module developers permission to push
>> updates to their own modules in this repo, without having to worry  
>> about
>> whether you trust them with permission to push to the main code tree?
>
> Right now we don't do much with gallery3-contrib in subversion on
> sourceforge.  Ie, we don't point users at it, we don't pull from it in
> any way (like we do with Gallery 2 for downloadable plugins).  So
> basically it's just a holding area for interesting code that we don't
> want to make part of the official package.
>
> I don't have a clear plan for what we do with this going forward.  It
> would be pretty easy to just add everybody as collaborators there and
> make it a free-for-all.  Or perhaps we tie it in with Romain's idea  
> for
> a "Gallery Forge" type site?  I don't know.. ideas welcome.

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