On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:54 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > I just blogged but worth an e-mail for anyone doing application releases. > > https://jriddell.org/2019/04/04/add-appstream-release-data-to-your-app-releases/ > > Appstream is a metadata standard for your software releases which gets > used by package managers and app stores as well as web sites such as > kde.org (one day at least). > > If you are incharge of making releases of an application from KDE mind > and make sure it has an appstream appdata file. You should also > include a screenshot preferably in the product-screenshots git repo. > > You should also add release data to your appstream files. See the > docs for the full details. Not all the data will be very practical to > add before the release time but it is useful to at least have a > version number and maybe a release date added in. > > I’ve added this to the Releasing Software wiki page now. And I’ve > written a wee script appstream-metainfo-release-update > https://invent.kde.org/jriddell/appstream-metainfo-release-update to > update the XML with a simple command which I’ve now added to the > Plasma release process.
Cool stuff, thanks Jonathan! Aleix
