On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:06, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Also, GNOME Shell is currently very unstable, both in API, > implementation and design, meaning that extensions written for 2.91.4 > may not work with 2.91.5 or 2.91.6. > > For these reasons, I'm proposing to open a new repository on GNOME Git, > called gnome-shell-extensions, collecting useful, or less so, > extensions, that would be characterized by clean code with reviews from > Shell developers (including porting after API breaks), thorough > translations and increased marketing (possibly with distribution > packages), while still allowing for UIs that don't agree with current > design. > This has been discussed in the past and it was generally agreed that extensions should be kept *inside* the GNOME Shell repo. until there is a stable API. At that point it would make sense to have an external repo. The rationale given for keeping them inside, while the API is unstable, is that any API changes that affect extensions would immediately show up in runtime testing.
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