Re: Central GNUstep software index?

[Riccardo]

Hi,


On 2008-04-18 08:41:59 +0200 "hns@computer.org" <hns@computer.org> 
wrote:

> One key problem of GNUstep is IMHO that it is quite difficult to find
> application software projects. There is GAP, some other (partially
> abandoned) projects and some announcements apear here on this list
> from time to time.
Fully agreed.


> * users can register and set reminders if updates become available (e-
> mail notice)
We don't have this feature unfortunatley with the Wiki. It is 
available for project hosted on sourceforge, but not on Savannah, 
AFAIK. GAP, Backbone, CodeEditor... are on savannah, tus we might ask 
them?

> What do you think about this proposal?
We used to have it, but it was often out of date, it didn't really 
work well. Currently the best thing is to keep the Wiki up-to-date. 
While it doesn't have some of the feature you mentioned, it is quick 
in usage and it is easy to inter-link applications which I find quite 
important. And it is self-service.

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications

For example
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Vespucci.app

links to simplewebkit.

I don't know if screenshots are easy to add?

A quite complete page can look like

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Gorm.app

It has download link to the latest version, relations to other 
applications and notes.

The nice part of the wiki is collaboration, like I could update the 
version when Gregory forgot to do that.

We have quite a good number of entries in freshmeat, but the idea of 
an external site is bad, another login, another site to keep updated. 
I personally don't update my own entries anymore...

Cheers,
  Riccardo