Re: [Banshee-List] Please ship an AppData file upstream

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Hi Richard,

On 30/09/13 11:08, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Fedora users and deveolpers have written several AppData [1] file
> which is used for showing screenshots and descriptions in various
> software centers such as GNOME Software which we are previewing in
> Fedora 20. One of those files is for Banshee, which is why I'm writing
> to your mailing list.
>
> The extra appdata files are stored here for
> https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/tree/master/appdata-extra/desktop,
> but we've love these files to be included upstream and installed in
> /usr/share/appdata, which means all the other Linux distributions
> other than Fedora can use this data themselves. Also, if the file is
> upstream you can change the description, screenshots and homepage as
> much as you like as your application evolves.
>
> Similarly, if you have something like intltool set up, you can
> translate the AppData file which is really awesome for people using
> the software center that can't use en_US as a locale.

I just committed an AppData file upstream (master and stable-2.6 branch, 
which means it will be available in 2.9.0 and 2.6.2 when they are 
released, although not sure when will that happen; 2.9.0 potentially 
very soon, but we'll likely wait a bit more for a 2.6.2, especially to 
leave time to translators to update their work to include the appdata 
strings).


> If you've got any problems, concerns or any other questions please
> don't hesitate to contact me. If replying to this email on the mailing
> list, please keep me cc'd as I'm not subscribed.

I've got a problem with the validation tool, which I filed here[2] (hope 
it was the right place). Feedback and hints to troubleshoot appreciated.

Also, I have two questions:
- I've named the file banshee.appdata.xml given that our desktop file is 
simply banshee.desktop, should I rename it to gnome-banshee.appdata.xml 
like it is in your fedora-appstream/ folder?
- I've seen in the tag <project_group> documentation that it is required 
to use GNOME infrastructure *and* policies: we generally do for the 
former, but wrt the latter I guess we're lagging a bit behind lately 
because we have big architectural changes (i.e. GTK3 migration) which 
makes it harder for us to commit to any release dates now. I hope this 
is not strict and I can add this to ours? BTW, does gnome have a policy 
about string freezes in stable branches? (If yes, I just violated it 
cherrypicking the appdata inclusion...)

Thanks,

  Andrés

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>
> [1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
>
[2] https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools/issues/10