Giovanni Campagna wrote:
We also need translations (that are in .desktop files
but not in .spec files),
Looky here, a spec file with translations:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=mine_detector.git;a=blob;f=mine_d...
Making lots of translators co-maintainers of all packages just to let them
translate the spec files wouldn't scale of course, but there also exist
translated package descriptions which do not originate from the spec files –
even for packages without desktop files. At least some Swedish translations
exist; I don't know about Italian. I can't tell you exactly how those
translations are produced and distributed, but someone who works with
translations presumably could.
we need screenshots, we need reviews, we need
ratings.
OK, then I'm starting to understand what you want. You might want to find a
better term for that than "application installer", as it apparently does a lot
more than just install applications.
How much new server infrastructure do you think would be needed? Is a
hierarchy of FTP mirrors with a round-trip time of a day or two satisfactory
for distributing reviews and ratings?
Björn Persson