Re: GNOME Software Center and YOU!

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> Do you maintain an application that people use? Do you want people to
> be able to install it easily in the GNOME Software Center?
>
> If both of those are true, please read the newly finalised AppData
> specification [ http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ ]
> and ship one tiny extra file in your tarball for 3.10.
>
> People will love you for doing it, and I’ll really appreciate it.

I would really appreciate it too :-)

> Maybe post 3.10 we can do a GNOME Goal for all the core GNOME modules,
> but of course this applies to GNOME, KDE, XFCE and random standalone
> apps.

I think a GNOME goal in the next cycle is an excellent idea, but we
should get some modules equipped with this appdata now, so we can gain
some experience with the format before it is set entirely in stone.