[Sugar-devel] Official homepages for activities are at laptop.org?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:37:55PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

>> I am packaging software that was published by Sugarlabs.  So for the 
>> context of the package that I build for Debian, Sugarlabs is 
>> "upstream".
>>
>> I am looking for a single URL being the "home" (i.e. starting point 
>> for web browsing) of what Sugarlabs is providing, for each activity 
>> or Glucose part.
>
>Activities.sl.o is intentionally designed to decentralize the control 
>of activity development anyone can upload their work to aslo to be 
>distributed.  Before becoming 'public' new activities and versions of 
>activities are given a review by the aslo editors.
>
>aslo is a distribution tool rather than a developer tool.

By that you mean a tool for _you_ to distribute, not a tool for 
distributors, right?

I represent arguably the worlds largest distributor of prepackaged Free 
Software.  For each package that we distribute, we want to advertise its 
upstream through a single URL, which is then promoted to our users in 
various ways, currently most prominently as a field in packaging tools 
like aptitude.

All I ask is this: What are your package-specific URLs for us to 
advertise?


>How is the issue handled when packaging mozilla addons?

Some use addons.m.o (and funnily enough greasemonkey is packaged by a 
russian guy putting this as its homepage: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/748 )

Some do not include a homepage.

Some use upstream project site (e.g. http://noscript.net/ )


If I were to package greasemonkey, I would no doubt use 
http://www.greasespot.net/ as homepage.  Not because that's where it is 
developed, but because that is its home. 
https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/748 is just an exhibition 
booth hosted by the authors of its backend.


the reason I raise the question is that I care about Sugar, and I find 
it sad that I cannot find an obvious "home" of each piece that it 
consists of.  There are lots of places scattered all over, but no 
"starting point" to explore each pice of the puzzle - be it as 
developer, distributor, user or journalist.


  - Jonas

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