And now what?

Well, in the past days I’ve been idling in #gnome-art @ irc.gnome.org. I haven’t had the opportunity to meet much of the community and I definitely should do that. They certainly have valuable ideias to the project.

Thomas(my mentor) and I have been slowly planning the database schema. Being this probably one of the most important steps in the whole process there’s no need to rush things up.
All ideas can be found in the gnome wiki where I’m updating previous ideas aswell as adding new ones.

But let’s explain some ideas, that’s why this page exists.

Authentication
Implement ACL to manage user permissions in the system functionalies seems to be a good option since it let’s easily change user rights whenever needed. Not that we need to be changing constantly but we are looking for a expandable system, so let’s not hardcode too much basic features. In later development this can help to speed up code writing.

XML+RPC
Ok. So one of the features I’d love to implement would be this one. This integrates art.gnome.org with 3rd party applications, which can be beneficial to everyone.
If you aren’t familiar with XML+RPC, it would allow us to launch an API so 3rd party applications could interact with AGO. A possible example is to download backgrounds, themes, icon sets directly to a GNOME Desktop using a small application based on AGO API.

That’s all for now.

If you have an idea you think can help the project or just want to comment about, please do. Every feedback is welcomed.