On 2 November 2013 09:27, John Layt <jl...@kde.org> wrote: > The new Gnome Software > Centre in Gnome 3.12 which uses AppData will become the default > installer in Fedora 20 for Gnome (Fedora KDE will use Apper).
Slight correction. We're shipping gnome-software 3.10.x in Fedora 20, 3.12.x in Fedora 21, and 3.14.x in Fedora 22, so the hard requirement of AppData files isn't going to be for a long while yet (at least a year). > useful info, like module, maintainer, reviewboard, bugzilla, last > stable release number, frameworks tier, forums, irc channel, userbase, > mailing list, etc, that AppData and projects.xml and inqlude and any > other required metadata files could all be automatically generated > from? I'm actually interested in including these extra fields in the AppData spec; the original specification is deliberately small in scope to avoid overwhelming people interested in adding an AppData file. Future versions of the spec will add more information such as a donate URL, an IRC channel link, mailing list etc. For instance, there is an open bug for donations here: https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools/issues/7 and I'd be very open to spec improvement ideas. Richard