> I'd probably prefer having an official tree where people could contribute their crap extensions and these would be reviewed, maintained and forward-ported by the GNOME team
You could aim for inclusion in the gnome-shell-extensions repository, which is kind of what you want:
Posted Dec 2, 2011 15:30 UTC (Fri) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
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I did, before the website launched. I was informed that this repository was temporary, and will be deprecated after the website launches (i.e. right about now).
extensions.gnome.org launches
Posted Dec 3, 2011 10:30 UTC (Sat) by robinst (subscriber, #61173)
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