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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
