[Gimp-web] registry prototyping / design

[Roman Joost]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:11:28PM +0200, Ingo Lütkebohle wrote:
> Dear gimp-web folks,
> 
> I'm writing in regard to the plug-in registry, which I've maintained
> (more or less) over the past years.  See http://registry.gimp.org/ 
> [...]
>
> Recently, I have undertaken an experiment, the result of which can be seen at
>   http://registry.gimp.org:81/
> Its a tad slow, as the box its running on is quite busy, but should
> give you an idea.  Also, its not public yet (and I hope it was OK to
> nick your logo without asking, I didn't want to make this known before
> something basic was available.) but feel free to pass the URL around.
> 
> Basically, its a CMS-driven registry.  The CMS in question is Drupal,
> mainly because I had prior experience with it and because I like the
> community orientation. There are several important things here:
>  * it took less than a day to build it and yet its functionally
> equivalent to the old site (which wasn't all that complicated)
>  * the drupal setup would allow others to come in and help out with
> maintaining it, i.e. looking for bit-rot, salvage outdated plug-ins,
> and so on
>  * should functional extensions be required, they are quite easy to do
>  * if someone were to look at the design, its template-driven

I like the idea that the people can maintian their own scripts and
plugins. Are you going to maintain the system as well as you maintained
the registry?

I think it might need a similar functionality like other extension sites
have (thinking of addons.mozilla.org). Having a similar design to
gimp.org would be neat, but I think we should finish gimp.org first and
think about derivate designs afterwards ...

Greetings,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski at gimp.org
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