Hi, All right, so let's get back to basics :)
Clearly, for these pages to make some sense at all, there has to be some added value. Let's try to enumerate these first... - authoritative by this i mean it will be the hopefully best maintained and relevant info source on an application relevant to gnome. People will of course be free to create an "official" website for their app, and publish it as they see fit. Yet, the wgo app pages would appear in a more-or-less uniform fashion, with some established guidelines. It will be possible to make it a collaborative effort, where several people can make sure the page is up do date and meeting some standards. Perhaps the "official" web page will be more up-to-date, because Changelogs appear within microseconds of a release, but people browsing wgo/apps will hopefully get a uniform and still valid resource to discover gnome apps. In addition, it just looks more professional if you can reference a core gnome app by an official gnome URL, may it be on an about box, manual, banner, flier, blimp, super bowl, or other marketing blurb :) - translated The wgo infrastructure will offer the possibility to translate these pages. Arguably these will not be the first pages translated, but I believe it is a useful feature. - detail and structure we determine how such an app page is structured and what appears on it. This will enhance interoperability, and give a uniform appeal of all the pages. We cannot except this from "official" sites. (yeah, gnomefiles has structure, but it has a different scope, and will never have all the details we might need) - scope I imagine the app pages to be _not_ a "software map", that is a database trying to list all gnome-relevant software. And in this respect I see no competition with gnomefiles.org, on the contrary, an opportunity to cooperate. The exact policy on what to include here is up for discussion, but the principal guideline should be what is most relevant for gnome. Again, this is not the scope of gnomefiles.org, where the focus is on as many apps as possible. Another policy can be to include only mature apps, whereas gnomefiles can host them as soon as they release 0.0.1-alpha. Also, on wgo we can convey default app policy, say our media player _is_ totem, whereas gnomefiles.org would obviously do no such thing. It is also not a projects page, trac [1] style. Once we come around to do prgo, we can just use these project management frameworks, off the shelf. Their focus is to drive development efforts, and they do it well. They do wikis, issue tracking, project management (timelines, milestones, roadmaps, etc), repository integration, etc. I see wgo/apps/ page as an about box on steroids. It would be _the_ pace to go to find out some basic info about a gnome app. You can go to gnomefiles.org to see what else is out there, or the project pages to get in the gory details, or the "official" page to see that too, if you want. The thing is, not all apps have an official page, esp. core gnome apps... - integration So how can we integrate with other resources? We can display the feed from gnomefiles.org and link there, to channel visitors looking for the myriad of apps out there. We can link to, or possibly slurp some data from the projects pages. Gnomefiles could be used for general searching for apps, or displaying similar apps (e.g. based on their categores), etc. We can integrate with the apps, in the about box, bug-buddy, manual pages, etc. For example, the intro of an app could be authored together with the manual, and extracted for the wgo page. Or if the manual pages ever go online, they could be truly cross-referenced. We can also integrate with distros. Point users at them for installing or any distro-specific issues, such as support. Distros could point back to us as "upstream", say in package info files... - all your app are not belong to us since gnomefiles.org already exists, and does a great job, it does not make sense to create a host'em all apps site. we should only focus on truly gnomey apps :) Greg [1] http://trac.edgewall.org/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
