I am in favor of this idea, unfortunately I don't have the necessary  
knowledge to make it happen.

Whatever I can do to help, let me know.

On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:27 PM, ringmaster wrote:

>
> I think I failed in my initial message to present the problem
> statement.  Let me provide that now:
>
>> There is no way for contributors who are not svn-savvy to reliably  
>> commit things themselves to the extras repo.
>
> Thinking about what the svn-ignorant can do, most can create zip
> archives of their work.  Particularly, I'm thinking of theme authors,
> who are typically inexperienced with source code control, but can dump
> a zip on their own sites in no time.
>
> Sending a zip file anywhere for someone else to commit is not a
> solution to the problem statement, which requires that they be able to
> do it themselves.  You can already send zip files places and request
> someone do it for you - that's not a problem, and the solution I
> proposed doesn't address that.
>
> This also isn't primarily about creating a plugin and theme directory,
> which is already in-progress and available (to some extent) via
> http://habariproject.org/en/explore/plugins  This is about making it
> easier for contributors to get their contributions into the extras
> repo, should they choose to do so, and then later bridging this system
> to an extant directory.
>
> Owen
>
> >


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