Re: Google Play account

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

Hi Allan,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> ...
> > > It seems like a shame if we don't distribute the app on the Play
> > > store. As far as I can see, while there's a few things to work out, it
> > > shouldn't be all that difficult to resolve them.
> >
> > The thing is that I'm really not the person to deal with those issues
> > so I don't know if they are difficult or easy to solve. If someone
> > else can take care of all the bureaucratic and administrative
> > issues/questions involved, that would be lovely.
>
> The main thing that's required is an agreement with the Release Team
> about how the process should work.

Release team is usually pretty busy and thin on resources so I'm not
sure if they could take more work/responsibility on their shoulders,
but I'll ask (adding to CC).

> A good starting point would be to
> create a wiki page for the app (under https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/ ),
> with the usual details:
>
>  * List the maintainer, development resources, bug tracking.
>  * Explain how contributors can get involved.
>  * Explain how the app can be tested.
>  * Screenshots?!

That could be easily arranged, Ankit could you please take care of
that? You can take a look at other wikipages under
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/ for examples.

> And since it's an Android app, it would be good to have a few notes on
> how translations and documentation work.

Not sure if documentation is much needed here but translations, yes we
need a way to handle those. I have no clue about Android so this is
another thing Ankit will have to answer.

> ...
> > > I guess I'm missing something here, but what would be the motivation
> > > for moving to freedesktop.org?
> >
> > Cause geoclue is there and this is more a part of geoclue than GNOME,
> > even though currently GNOME is the only desktop that will benefit from
> > it.
>
> I'm not so sure about this. GNOME seems far better equipped to
> maintain and release user facing software than Freedesktop.

Of course but IMHO that is not relevant unless we want release team to
create infra to build (and upload binaries to Play store). Otherwise,
whether it's going to be on Play store, our webspace or geoclue's
webspace, we simply provide link to that.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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