On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
El Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:35:34 -0400
Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> escribió:
> On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:46 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>
> > > Any questions, either grab me on irc 'hughsie' or reply to this
> > > email. Be sure to read [1] as a lot of common questions are
> > > answered there.
> >
> > I have one question, if the data is shipped in the packages how is
> > it supposed to get to the end user so that they can know about it
> > and choose to install the application?
>
> We plan to extract it in the build system and provide it separate from
> the applications in the repository.
>
that is very vague and handwavy, who is we? how exactly would it be
provided to the user?
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5721
I guess that by "we", Matthias means people who are interested in
gnome-software. Right now I think this includes (at least) Richard,
Matthias, and I.
We have some scripts that extract the relevant metadata from packages.
https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/
We want the metadata to live with the rest of the repository metadata.
gnome-software or packagekit or any other relevant component would download
it and cache it locally.
Legal approved:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2013-September/002232.html
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-Elad Alfassa.