Hi, I know -dev team doesn't exist yet, but in spite of that: some of us may be needed.
Yesterday in the packaging meeting[1], misc and Stormi talked about the 3days they went to a Cross-Distro App Installer Meeting[2]. As far as I understood, our involvement in AppStream[3] is 4 part: - mageia-app-db would like to use the metadata to display on the site. - sophie would like some of the metadata too. - mageia could work on making packagekit support work (it does not replace rpm or urpmi in any way, it is cross-distro and just delegates the work to urpmi (in our case).) - mageia would then package AppStream in the distro. (Nothing is being said as being used by default: Note that AppStream only does Applications, while eg: rpmdrake installs packages). Since this concerns mostly packaging, it has had a start-discussion in the packagers' meeting. However: - mageia-app-db (Stormi: PHP) would like some help. - sophie (Nanar: Perl) would like some help. - packagekit support (misc: Perl) would need to be finalized. ( requires intimate knowledge of perl-URPM ) - someone will have to package AppStream eventually. afaik shikamaru would help with sophie, so i think that is covered. So this leaves: - PHP for mageia-app-db - Perl-URPMI related stuff for packagekit support (i might have some time for this, not sure yet) Now then, if there is anyone from -dev team who is inclined to help out, please, tell us :-) Regards, Maarten (aka AL13N) [1]: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings#packaging_team [2]: http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20110126/003418.html [3]: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/MetadataNotes