dah-dah-da-daaaaah! synchrotron!

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi..

the subject line of this email should be sung to the tune of your favourite 
superhero t.v. show, such as Italian Spiderman.

on boxing day (which is what the Brits and Canuckistanis call the day after 
Christmas) i sent an email to this list with the subject GHNS feeds for 
plasmoid addons.

if you missed my blog entry on it, i have it working as of yesterday:

	http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/01/fire-up-synchrotron.html

i've put in a request to the sysadmin team to move the git repo somewhere more 
appropriate, but for now the repositories are here:

	http://gitweb.kde.org/scratch/aseigo/synchrotron.git
	http://gitweb.kde.org/scratch/aseigo/synchrotron-sources.git

the second repo is where we will put the content. Artur: you could add the 
share backends there right away if you'd like, in fact :)

where to host it is something that will come next, and i'll also be working 
that through with KDE sys admin.

in the meantime, code review, patches, improvements, feedback, etc. for the 
code and/or usage of the -sources repository is very, very welcome.

it also opens up some new avenues of development for us, namely:

* how to automatically check for addons from synchrotron on first-run
* how to check for updates so we can offer an auto-update service

i'd like to make this easy for DataEngine and Plasmoid developers to take 
advantage of, preferably by putting such logic right into DataEngine and 
Applet itself. it would be nice to see the logic for this in libattica so that 
it can be shared by all kinds of application (imagine starting Palapeli and 
having a dozen or two puzzles available, new ones appearing all the time, via 
synchrotron in the start up listing!).

 in the immediate future, while we work on these kinds of improvements, we can 
use the normal GHNS dialogs from knewstuff3 to test things out.

(on a side note / as a bit of useless trivia: synchrotron came out of design 
work i did over the holidays for plasma classroom :)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
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