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Xfburn inconsistently part of Goodies
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RESOLVED: INVALID
Product:
goodies.xfce.org
Component:
General

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Description Radu-Cristian Fotescu 2008-04-10 19:32:39 CEST
The page http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfburn/ (with bad URLs, see bug 4000) suggests that Xfburn is *not* a Goodie.

The URLs
http://svn.xfce.org/index.cgi/xfce-goodies/browse/xfburn/trunk
http://svn.xfce.org/svn/goodies/xfburn/
suggest that it *is* indeed a Goodie.

If so, it should be added to http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/start -- because I couldn't find it there.
Comment 1 Radu-Cristian Fotescu 2008-04-10 19:38:30 CEST
http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/ does *not* contain Xfburn either!
Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-04-10 21:00:11 CEST
Er... so what?  Where to list their projects and host their pages is up to each module maintainer.  The goodies repo and website is there for people who don't have or don't want their own hosting for whatever reason.  Being an "official goodie" or not is irrelevant (read: there's no such thing).  It's perfectly reasonable for an author to make use of the goodies svn repo but not the website, for example.
Comment 3 Radu-Cristian Fotescu 2008-04-10 21:27:40 CEST
When Xfburn is linked to from http://www.xfce.org/projects/ under Applications, doesn't this make it an official part of XFCE? I haven't seen anywhere that "Goodies are unsupported" or anything else suggesting that they're "unofficial, so we shouldn't care".

I WON'T open a bug saying "there is a lack of leadership with Xfce", nor a bug saying "you should do something with the PR", because this would offend you -- unfortunately, both assertions would only reflect the truth.
Comment 4 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-04-10 21:44:29 CEST
(In reply to comment #3)
> When Xfburn is linked to from http://www.xfce.org/projects/ under Applications,
> doesn't this make it an official part of XFCE? I haven't seen anywhere that
> "Goodies are unsupported" or anything else suggesting that they're "unofficial,
> so we shouldn't care".

There's nothing "official" about much of anything.  The Goodies are just that: extra possibly-useful stuff.  We more or less let anyone who wants to write something Xfce-related host their stuff there.  We don't endorse or judge those projects as good or bad: they're simply there for people to use if they fill a need.  If they don't, we lose a little hard drive space on the server.  No big deal.

> I WON'T open a bug saying "there is a lack of leadership with Xfce", nor a bug
> saying "you should do something with the PR", because this would offend you --
> unfortunately, both assertions would only reflect the truth.

Funny how "truth" can take on different meanings depending on the emotional needs of the speaker.

Bug #4001

Reported by:
Radu-Cristian Fotescu
Reported on: 2008-04-10
Last modified on: 2009-07-15

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Jannis Pohlmann
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