On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 11:31 -0400, Colin Walters 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?
And further than that, I don't think that GNOME as an entity (meaning the GNOME Foundation) has the financial backbone or the staff to provide this. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have it as a goal, I just want to mention that we'd need to do work on the Foundation side as well for this to happen. Cheers _______________________________________________ gnome-os-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-os-list
