Hi Richard, On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I'm the developer for PackageKit and gnome-software, the > latter being the new software center we're hopefully including as a > technical preview in Fedora 20. > > [...] > > At the moment, we use the information in the .desktop file to populate > the AppStream data, but this is missing a few core things, for > instance a long description, the upstream website for the application > and any screenshots to show. All of the three being quite critical to > assess an application before installing. To fix this I've created a > tiny AppData specification [1] which is a subset of the AppStream > specification. It's designed as a way to describe the application (not > the package) so that data can be used in the AppStream data. > As a first step to create such a database, can you reuse metadata avalable on Ohloh? https://www.ohloh.net/p It seems they already have much of what you need. Bye, Andrea.
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