Not wanting to intrude and it's highly likely this has already been seen
but the idea of the app store was brought up on the Fedora mailing list
recently [0] so it could be an opportunity to share resources to an extent.

There's also the Appstream[1] project on fdo that aims to make it easy to
build software centre style apps.

Regards,
Nick

[0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/172091.html
[1] http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream

On 9 October 2012 14:36, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote:

> Colin Walters <[email protected]> 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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