Re: Application Installation & Distribution

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 15:01 -0400, Allan Day wrote:
>
>>  * We need an app store. Having a centralised service for application
>> distribution would make it easier for people to find the applications
>> they are interested in, for us to generate revenue from those
>> applications (perhaps through donations that could be redistributed it
>> to 3rd party developers), and for handling application updates. The
>> app store can be online in the first instance. GNOME 3 will also need
>> a place where installed applications can be viewed and removed; this
>> could be part of System Settings or a separate application.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) Do we allow other sources?  Do we encourage it?  If so, to
>    what degree does that break the "centralized updates" story?
> 2) Does this GNOME app store allow proprietary software?
> 3) What is our set of acceptable Free/Open Source Software licenses?
> 4) To what degree do we expect software there to be reviewed?
>    How much can we learn from extensions.gnome.org?  It's just Jasper
>    doing reviews, right?

These are all good questions, but I don't think we need to worry too
much about them right now. What we need at this early stage is a
prototype system that can be used on existing distributions. I assume
that we'd use it to distribute a small number of existing GNOME
applications to begin with.

Allan
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