On 30 September 2013 12:00, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could you highlight how much of a "cross-distro effort"
this really is?
You can use gnome-software from git master on Fedora and SUSE now, as
I've spent quite a bit of last week with the SUSE rel-eng people
making their metadata validate. I've got a few more compat bits to
add, and then you'll be able to add Ubuntu and Arch to that list too.
The idea is that all the software centers (USC, a couple of smaller
ones) would consume this too, so it's not even gnome-software
specific.
Audacious upstream has asked whether the AppData file would only be
used
by Fedora? Writing a simple file and including it in the Fedora rpms is
easy, but it would look more beautiful with an official screenshot and
an official updatecontact address.
Yes, it's designed to be upstream unless there's a very good reason.
Over a 110 upstream projects have already merged AppData files,
although most are not present in Fedora as you have to normally wait
for a new tarball release. If you can convince them to translate the
appdata file too, that'd be double awesome.
Richard